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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] Linux vs Windows
From:       Ain Vagula <ain () riiska ! ee>
Date:       2001-11-13 8:17:49
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1. I have 2 years owned hp ide cd-writer and finally last week I got the 
thing working in windows, in linux worked it all the time :)
2. I couldn't install win2000 on my old machine. I wasted 3 days, 
nothing, it just hanged up. Microsoft helpdesk didn't say anything 
reasonable. Then I brought machine to a computer firm, they wasted 
another three days. They said that they don't want my money, it is about 
their pride to get thing up... nothing.
Now I know that problem was a kind of motherboard chipset incompability.
3. My son tried Windows Me on his machine and he didn't like it. Also he 
decided to go back to win98. Of course, win98 fdisk couldn't erase winMe 
partitions and I used SuSE live-eval cd to do this (he gave WinMe cd 
back to his friend, so we couldn't use this)  :P
4. etc......

Who said that windows is easy to install ? :)
I have used Linux since SuSE 6.2 (hmm, 7.3 seems to by my 7th SuSE) and 
never had some kind of installing problems.

-- 
ain,
lru#151895




Jaakko Tamminen wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I must disagree with ease of installation (but that is just my computer)
> 
> I have Matrox G450, USB, Ensoniq sound card, 512Mb RAM and a cheap 10/100 NIC 
> (realtek)
> 
> SuSE 7.2 installed okay, found USB and sound and network card without 
> problems.
> 
> When I for "fun" installed win-98 to this same computer to a empty HD that 
> was lying around, I found that Win-98 failed miserably to detect 3 things:
> 
> USB: Was quite hard to get working. Had to install/remove it several times, 
> and finally got it working by doing some tricks that an average user could 
> never have done.
> 
> NIC: Same thing. There was just no "normal" with that setup. A lot of 
> tweaking and testing before I got it to work.
> 
> Sound: Win-98 just could not find any soundcard. I had to "force" that one 
> too.
> 
> So in this case I would say that Win-98 installation is a nightmare! No 
> average user could install Win-98 to this computer.
> 
> Linux on the other hand installs by accepting just defaults, and start 
> working. Even dual-monitor is supported, sound came up without doing anything 
> special, same goes with USB-mouse and NIC.
> 
> Only setting USB-scanner to work has been a little tricky, but all the 
> instructions can be found from documents, it was just to find the correct 
> document. 
> 
> Jaska.
> 
> 



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