On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 09:20 +0100, 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.
Erm, try telling that to the Client I was dealing with today...However I suggest you do it from a distance. Mac's break just as well (although not always as easily) as any other computer system, and in fact can be slightly more troublesome when they are broken.
(spoken by someone who had to travel to London today to fix a broken Netinfo database on an OSX box, and before any OSX geeks ask, no the nightly backup copy was shafted as well and I couldn't just resume from a clean one as there were too many user accounts to deal with)
So apologies as I seem to bail out on Linux. When I eventually purchase a new Mac I intend to dual boot with Ubuntu or something similar as I will have a better choice of full blown distros rather than cut down one aimed at low end machines.
No need to apologise. The only thing I can offer at this point is that some time in the future you should try Linux on more modern hardware, It is true that lightweight distros run quite well on older hardware but they tend to have a slightly steeper learning curve and often don't have quite the same user base as a "full fat" distro.
I hope you have a better experience next time Simon.
Kind regards Wayne