On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:50 PM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
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On 2015-07-03 01:59, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 3:26 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
Having a recovery partition (which is an old trick) is cheating.
Why? It's how Windows has been installed itself for years now.
No. That's mot installing Windows, that's restoring a backup image, made by the people that made the computer. You have no say in what to install, you have to accept the choices made by somebody else.
Well this is just a b.s. argument over what constitutes "installing Windows". Using your logic, numerous Linux distro live CD weren't really installing Linux either because they were using dd to copy an ext4 image to the drive, and then resizing the file system after copying, and finally fixing up some configuration files. This still used the distros installer app, as when packages are installed to a new file system. I don't buy the distinction between them at all. They're both installations of an OS. And I already pointed out that Microsoft provides a generic Windows installer. You give Microsoft the OEM software key and Microsoft will provide a download for their decrapified Windows installer. So you get exclusively Microsoft's choice in software, rather than the OEM. It's hardly any different than, again, the bundled apps that a live Linux distro chooses for you. In either case you can choose to uninstall them after installation.
And anyway, talking about Windows "advantages" is not interesting to the OP or this list.
It isn't a Windows advantages commentary. It's the advantage of stateless systems, with Windows as one of the examples that you just happen to be fussing over more than the others. -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org