On Tuesday 09 May 2006 09:20, Simon Royal wrote:
Before I start I would like to state I am a devout anti-Microsoft user and this pains me. My main machine is a Mac of which I am very pleased with. In all the years I have owned a Mac they never let me down, they just work and very well.
My venture into Linux has come to a halt. My ThinkPad 380ED has been stripped of Damn Small Linux and replaced with Windows 98 Second Edition. There was no speed increase over Windows and the age of the machine limited me to the distro's I could use.
With Damn Small Linux being the best option, I was annoyed by the limited amount of software and support for it. I know Microsoft are switching off support for 98 & ME in July but the wealth of knowledge and software and supported hardware under these operating systems was a drawing point for me.
Sad that this was your experience.
I think you'll have a worse time on windows 98 myself (for which support was withdrawn years ago), which will reliably crash itself without *any* third-party apps installed, but time will tell.
My wife also wants to use the laptop and Linux is no place for someone with little computing knowledge.
Well, I know several true end-users who use linux exclusively as a "computing for granny" platform, so that doesn't seem right to me.
Still, have fun, and let us know when you see the terrible folly of your chosen path :P
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