I have been hearing about Linux Free O/S's for many years now, and I have
decided to try it out on one of my older P/C's - one that I built from parts
purchased at PC Club which I have replaced with this one (hp Pavillion).
Checked the Ubuntu website and v7.04 will be released on the 19th and have
ordered the CD of it. If it works with my peripherals and current
software - Hasta La Vista Microsoft!

This Windows Vista O/S is turning out to be the final straw, from vanishing
icons to IE7 shutting down randomly without cause to having to get help at
every turn just to make this thing work as advertised (which it still does
not!), is proving to be my undoing, or rather Microsofts undoing. I belong
to a nationwide volunteer organization and we all use our computers
extensively and it gets darned expensive trying to keep up with Billionare
Gates and Company just to do our bit for the everday people we work with.
There is a membership of more than a hundred thousand and if this free
Ubuntu O/S works, I shall make a recommendation to the entire organization
to make the switch.

Good luck to you all, and thank you all for trying to help this retired old
f**t work out the bugs in this Vista O/S, but I believe there are just way
too many "workarounds" that take way too long and are way too complicated to
get this thing to work as advertised . . . Did I mention that it still
doesn't work as advertised?

Paparowe

[color=blue]
> Good luck to you all, and thank you all for trying to help this retired
> old
> f**t work out the bugs in this Vista O/S, but I believe there are just way
> too many "workarounds" that take way too long and are way too complicated
> to
> get this thing to work as advertised . . . Did I mention that it still
> doesn't work as advertised?
>
> Paparowe[/color]

If you have found Vista to complicated to setup I wish you lots of luck with
any Linux distro.

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:26:17 -0600, Darkelldar wrote:
[color=blue]
>[color=green]
>> Good luck to you all, and thank you all for trying to help this retired
>> old
>> f**t work out the bugs in this Vista O/S, but I believe there are just way
>> too many "workarounds" that take way too long and are way too complicated
>> to
>> get this thing to work as advertised . . . Did I mention that it still
>> doesn't work as advertised?
>>
>> Paparowe[/color]
>
> If you have found Vista to complicated to setup I wish you lots of luck with
> any Linux distro.[/color]

Yes indeed. I've found that generally a mainstream Linux distribution to
be quite a bit easier to install than MS. For one thing you don't need all
the driver disks.

Heard you the first time paparowe, bet you any money this will not be
Microsofts' undoing, Linux maybe free to very cheap, but wait until you need
support with Linux (paid support that is), and you will see how much it
costs. I think that was Linux's undoing. Can't even give away for free.

- Vusta

"paparowe" <papannanarowe@frontiernet.net> wrote in message
news:6C99C8F0-CC6F-41F5-8A2A-D5300E6AA96B@microsoft.com...
:I have been hearing about Linux Free O/S's for many years now, and I have
: decided to try it out on one of my older P/C's - one that I built from
parts
: purchased at PC Club which I have replaced with this one (hp Pavillion).
: Checked the Ubuntu website and v7.04 will be released on the 19th and have
: ordered the CD of it. If it works with my peripherals and current
: software - Hasta La Vista Microsoft!
:
: This Windows Vista O/S is turning out to be the final straw, from
vanishing
: icons to IE7 shutting down randomly without cause to having to get help at
: every turn just to make this thing work as advertised (which it still does
: not!), is proving to be my undoing, or rather Microsofts undoing. I
belong
: to a nationwide volunteer organization and we all use our computers
: extensively and it gets darned expensive trying to keep up with Billionare
: Gates and Company just to do our bit for the everday people we work with.
: There is a membership of more than a hundred thousand and if this free
: Ubuntu O/S works, I shall make a recommendation to the entire organization
: to make the switch.
:
: Good luck to you all, and thank you all for trying to help this retired
old
: f**t work out the bugs in this Vista O/S, but I believe there are just way
: too many "workarounds" that take way too long and are way too complicated
to
: get this thing to work as advertised . . . Did I mention that it still
: doesn't work as advertised?
:
: Paparowe
:

> Yes indeed. I've found that generally a mainstream Linux distribution to[color=blue]
> be quite a bit easier to install than MS. For one thing you don't need all
> the driver disks.[/color]

What color have you found the sky to be in your world?

heh ..

Rich

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:46:14 -0700, Rich wrote:
[color=blue][color=green]
>> Yes indeed. I've found that generally a mainstream Linux distribution to
>> be quite a bit easier to install than MS. For one thing you don't need all
>> the driver disks.[/color]
>
> What color have you found the sky to be in your world?
>
> heh ..
>
> Rich[/color]

Quite blue most of the time - occasional white clouds, very rarely gray
with rain. SE Idaho is that way.

"ray" <ray@zianet.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2007.04.16.03.42.34.132849@zianet.com...[color=blue]
> I've found that generally a mainstream Linux distribution to
> be quite a bit easier to install than MS. For one thing you don't need all
> the driver disks.
>[/color]

"Driver disks"? I was not asked for any driver disks when I installed Vista.
Most of the drivers are on the installation CD/DVD.
Defend Linux all you want, and trash Windows (any version) all you want. But
it is intellectually dishonest to just make crap up and claim that it is a
Windows drawback. I don't know of a single driver disk that's needed in
addition to the installation CD/DVD.
I've seen some posts about SATA drivers (or is it RAID?) on a floppy, but
since I've never had to use such a thing I have no idea what it's for and
whether Vista even requires it. And even if Vista does, that's ONE driver
disk.
You referred to ALL the driver disks, implying there were many.
Please tell us what you're referring to, or tell us that you just made that
up.

> with rain. SE Idaho is that way.


Too bad yer not ... pity

what goes around comes around .. and rains on you :)

have a nice day


Rich