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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:15:56 +0100, dennis@home wrote:

> "Rick" <none@nomail.com> wrote in message
> news:13hd1t017df1377@news.supernews.com...
>> 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.. 

It was the users fault. He wiped his hard drive. It would have been the 
same if he had tried to install Windows.

> he should have read the manuals.. 

He should have read about partitioning hard drives. It seems the prase 
"use the whole disk" was too complicated.

> Linux is for real nerds.

I have never said that. Linux/OSS is not just for nerds.



-- 
Rick