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Article #1182Re: Currant Bun
From: Richard Caley
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 00:00
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In article <CheetahPRO_v1.13-n5_27465@blackcat.demon.co.uk>, Mike Dickson (md) writes: md> I seriously do not think this experience is the norm. Perhaps you differ md> in what you consider or define to be 'vaguely usable'. If it means the md> time between bunging the OS CD in and getting Word up and running then md> Joe Ordinary will do it in an hour -absolute max- with Windows. And I put Linux up the firt tme in about that time |(I was watching a film while I did it, so I know it wan't more than 90 mins or so. And half the time there was in telling it about the network, which is beyond the `getting word going limit. md> Any competition to Microsoft must be a good thing, though, md> although whether -anything- can dent the ongoing juggernaut of MS md> marketing is open to debate. Can't see that it really matters that much actually. Applications and standards are more of a problem than the OS. I don't care if the world wants to run an OS which crashes twice a day, so long as I don't have to, and me not having to would require the death of stupid propriatory file formats. Appart from games, 90% of my Windoze use is just loading up a file someone has given me so I can save it again. -- Mail me as rjc not spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk _O_ |<
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From: Richard Caley <spt@cstr.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Currant Bun
Date: 2000/01/19
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