Antonio Olivares wrote: > There is a story at distrowatch comment # 66 about a person who used linux > for a while and like it still does, but went back to windows because of > several problems. Here's link: > > http://batsov.com/Linux/Windows/Rant/2011/06/11/linux-desktop-experience- killing-linux-on-the-desktop.html I must be lucky/unlucky, as I am a 95% Fedora/CentOS/5% Windows user, but find Windows problems take at least 50% of my time. I spent almost two days installing Windows XP on an HP MicroServer, where it had taken about an hour to install CentOS-5.6. The MicroServer has no CD driver, so Windows had to be installed from a USB stick. This is several times as difficult as the same thing for Linux. I used the bizarrely-named USB_MultiBoot_10.cmd, after trying WinToFlash, the most popular application for this. When I put in the USB stick and re-booted, all went well for a few minutes, and then the machine crashed with a warning that the problem might be due to a virus. After reading around, I found that one had to make a change in the BIOS, specifying IDE rather than Sata for the Sata disk. After this the machine booted into Windows, but neither the in-built Broadcom NIC, nor the Intel CT adaptor that I had installed, worked - though both had worked without any issue under CentOS. It was relatively easy to find the Intel driver, but the Broadcom driver was more difficult. After downloading them under CentOS I had Windows running at last. So in this case at least it was Linux 10, Windows 0. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
