Re: Ubuntu erased my whole hard drive

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From: dennis
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:15

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"Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 22:24:41 +0100, dennis@home wrote:
>
>> "Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message
>> news:13hcthh1srtj7bf@news.supernews.com...
>>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:43:46 +0100, dennis@home wrote:
>>>
>>> )snip)
>>>>
>>>> It has to but it does warn the user in plain English that they will
>>>> lose data if thats what they do.
>>>> Linux does not warn the user in plain English in any distro I have
>>>> installed.
>>>> It may be fine for someone like me that would probably have clicked on
>>>> expert mode and done it manually anyway but its not much use for
>>>> newbies.
>>> (snip)
>>>
>>> What were the last 3 distros you installed?
>>
>> Fedora core 3,
> 3??? 3 ???? .... real current.
>
>> gentoo (real pain that one as it didn't compile my disk
>> controller in so it wouldn't boot first time), and ubuntu (but that
>> hasn't finished yet and doesn't work on vpc),
>
> ... it works on VMWare. I installed using VMWare just to see what the
> buzz is about.
>
>>
>>>What distro do you use?
>>
>> None here (unless you count my nas drives, router and mail server) as my
>> linux notebook got dropped and the new one is vista (insurance company
>> doesn't do linux) and I haven't got around to repartitioning it yet.
>
> Wow... from your statements, you sound like you haven't used a Linux
> distro in your life.

You sound like a part of the reason Linux still isn't very popular.
You give the standard answers.. its the users fault.. he should have read 
the manuals.. Linux is for real nerds.

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