Quoting Dave Ihnat <dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx>:
Once, long ago--actually, on Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 09:29:49PM
-0700--jdow (jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said:
Then I discovered a property of Windows. If your motherboard goes
bad and you can't replace it with an exact replacement the system and
all other software installed on that disk are suddenly useless. (Yes,
you can at least recover the files. But you cannot recover the installs.)
Ah...just a parenthetical aside. This is quite untrue. I've replaced
failed motherboards on numerous Windows installations of various versions.
You usually have to do a recovery reinstallation, but it does work, and
your installed programs, data, etc. are all preserved.
I'm not defending Windows--this is more along the lines of "Know thine
enemy". If you're trying to promote Linux, but express actual falsehoods
about Windows, people will discount all your views.
Yes...but if your Linux box is set up with a generic, modular kernel,
chances are you won't have to re-install Linux, where, as you point
out, with Windows, you'll have to do a "repair" install, at a minimum.
At worst, you'll have to try and re-install on another disk and
re-install all your apps and copy your data over. So, you are correct
in that many cases, on Windows you can do a "repair install" but may
end up having to start over from near scratch. Linux, properly set up,
doesn't have that issue. :D
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