🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2007-10-17, Summercool <Summercoolness@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 16, 11:44 pm, Peter Khlmann <peter.koehlm...@t-online.de>
> wrote:
>> dennis@home wrote:
>>
>> > The fact that I can't show the warning is just evidence that it doesn't
>> > exist.
>>
>> The "fact" that you can't show the warning is evidence that you are lying.
>> Or too stupid to even attempt a linux install. Or both
>
> Ok, I never saw a warning.  I started using computer since before
> Apple ][
> If some of you know, it is called the "Superboard", and I have used
> computer for 25 years.  I can program all the way from micro-code,
> machine code, all the way to C, Java, Python, and Ruby.
>
> Anyways, I didn't see any warning, and the Ubuntu tech support said
> this is a bug that it didn't detect Vista.
>
> Also, the word "Partition" may have a strong "erasing the whole hard
> drive" connotation to the Linux guys.  But it also may have a

	No. It has a strong "destroy your data" connotation to anyone
that understand what disk partitioning is or anyone that's ever installed
an OS before.

	This includes Windows and MacOS.

> "dividing the data" connotation to people.  Depending on its usage,
> sometimes people may think that it is merely creating a new partition
> for the Linux installation.  So between the two possible meanings, why
> assuming there is absolutely no confusion and just go ahead with the
> destructive action?

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