The message 20051105141123.GJ20752@pitr from Brett Parker iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk contains these words:
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... unforunate side effect tends to be that it's installed, and not keeping up to date with security holes, etc... this is one of the few things that Ubuntu have actually got right, IMO. How many people do you actually know that have installed a modern windows operating system rather than it coming preinstalled?
Well, here's one - I've installed DOS 6.22; Win 3.11; Win 98; Win 98SE; Win 2000 Pro - usually with no problem. The *ONLY* problems I've had were in installing Linux of various - er - distress.
Couldn't understand talk of 'cylinders' etc while trying to install an early S.u.S.E. - and had no idea how to convert them to the size of partition I wanted; then I installed Mandrake off a coverdisc, seemingly successfully, but the second time I fired it up, the logo sat on the screen for half a minute, then the whole thing fell over.
I have got a CD on which is Mini Linux, which runs in a DOS partition.
Allegedly.
Have you noticed that the CDs that tend to come with new hardware are "rescue" cds, and tend to just copy a bunch of files in to the right places rather than actually running through an install process? Windows + Drivers == major headaches.
Never had problems at all. Plug in hardware, feed the floppy drive or CD ROM with the driver disc, tell Windows roughly where to look, (CD, Floppy, or sometimes, \catroot and it works as if by magic. It looks, sorts out the right driver from the disc, and all you have to do is hit 'Enter'.
I like my CLI and use Midnight Commander as my day to day pocket knife for just about everything. Avoiding the emacs-vi argument is easy - I see no point in mashing a keyboard so treat both with the same degree of disdain. But I still like my KDE desktop with all the konsole sessions plastered over three screens, twenty odd html files open in mumble,mumble konqueror windows on a second virtual desktop..
Feh - I'm only in X so that I can get 4 terminals on the screen at the same time, neatly... and firefox running on the other desktop (who decided that the web should have graphics, damned fools! lets go back to it being an information store, dammit!)...
Luddite! (Though I admit to extreme Luddism with the format of e-mail and news.)
serious devel work tends to happen in a full height xterm these days, with vim still being my editor of choice (I really hate mice, I really hate having to mash a keyboard, a mode based editor fixes it nicely, one key press at a time, in a nice easy to remember order... Esc:wq isn't really that difficult, is it ;). I don't get on with Kate (the evil KDE editor of doom), or nedit... there are too many things that I like being able to do from vim without having to think or click...
Gnome?
Editor wars are fun, there should be more of them... ;)
What, editors?
D&RFC