View Single Post
Old 05-03-2003, 07:14 AM   #17 (permalink)
bullgoose
Insane
 
Location: Central N.Y.
Quote:
Originally posted by poof
I didn't read the article, might do it some other time. I just went through the tedious task of removing RedHat 9.0 from my Thinkpad. What a pain in the ass.

Next time I play with an alternative OS, it will be on a 'puter I can angrily kick, then throw into the recycle bin.

I am not a programmer, (but I am pro grammer, stupid fark reference. It won't happen again), and Linux requires skills or patience I don't have. I went to Windows after DOS 6.0 mandated it. I have not typed a .bat or anything since. Maybe lazy, or pragmatic, but I just want to turn on the machine and see it work.

MSoft is annoying, I will deal with that. When trying to set my screen resolution requires compiling? Never mind.
When gurus perfect the open source I will get back on the bandwagon, (I used to beta IBM's OS2 in the 80's before it was Windows). Then, you will be too expensive, and another arrogant "I am the best, you need me, I was counter culture, but now I am the way" elitists.

Right now, I just want to point and click, and drag and drop, and get pics of our grandchildren.

I am not as 'puter savvy as the rest of you, but, it too damn long to get redhat off my Thinkpad! It seems open source wants to take over your computer also.
It might be best to try a distro like Knoppix; Knoppix runs off a CD-ROM; you don't do ANY installation, but all the applications WORK! It's based on Debian Linux (My personal favorite) but since you don't install it, there's nothing to remove if you decide you don't care for Linux; it sure takes the pain out of finding out if Linux is for you.
__________________
"If I had it to do all over,
I'd do it all over you."
bullgoose is offline  
 

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360