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    30th November 2003, 12:28 AM
    Uhh... LL, I don't think anyone in this thread has anything substantive bad to say about Linux... I don't know what you're reading, but it sounds like you think that I dislike Linux or something, which is obviously wrong when you read what I said... its kind of confusing...

    As for the GUI, I've used several things in Red Hat... KDE mostly I think. Its just bland compared to Windows, the way it's set up on my dad's computer at least... Windows adds all kinds of graphical touches that aren't in Linux. And I know I'd rather a smaller and less cluttered taskbar, but I'm sure that is customizable. :)

    As for Linux for the masses... I'm not so sure. As you say, that would be completely against what the movement was for... though, it does seem to be moving that way on some front with stuff like Lindows. We'll see how far that gets... or if Linux starts to get many software ports.

    And you know what? Windows does drive me nuts, and is definitely poor software, but it is the only way to do what I want to do with my computer. You cannot deny that. There is no alternative. So I'm stuck with it. As is anyone who plays games. So I've got to just make it work well enough for me to survive... at least long enough for me to get a big new harddrive and install a new copy of (some other version of) windows on it. Because man is the amount that this piece of junk messes up annoying... I have to tolerate the very high frusteration because I have no choice, but I really wish I could wipe the stupid thing and start in XP (with a bigger disk and a partition with 98 on it). I'm sure it would run a lot better... having to reinstall everything and mold XP to be the way I like it (like probably making it look like older versions of Windows and trying to get rid of all their stupid "helpful" stuff that does nothing...)

    Hey, take System Restore. It is on by default in ME. I tried to use it twice... couldn't get the stupid thing to work, either saving a restore point or restoring one. And it kept taking up dozens of megs of HDD space, over 100 sometimes... so I tried to disable it but helpful Windows keeps turning it back on. At this point I just have it set so it can't exceed 5mb, which effectively has killed it... useless thing doesn't work when I need it so why let it waste my HDD space, but I can't turn it all the way off. Thanks, Microsoft!

    Sure, I'd have to reinstall everything (though I would have copied all the files onto another hdd so I wouldn't lose anything), but that would be worth getting rid of the constant crashes and memory leakage and harddrive space that "isn't there" when I know it is and messing up programs and all the rest that it does so much...

    But none of that is likely soon. :(
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