Re: Different Results From Different PCs?

microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless

29 Dec 2008 4:31 PM

Phillip Windell

"(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> wrote in message
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> Per Lem:
>>> I kept quiet as soon as I noticed Pete's problem was related a machine
>>> with
>>> "sudo" command :-p
>>>
>>>
>>
>>You're correct. I missed the "sudo".
>
> "Sudo" no more.
>
> I finally gave up on Linux and put XP Pro on it.
>
> For me, at least, XP Pro is like a toaster: I bring it home, I
> unpack it, I plug it in, and I start making toast.
>
> Linux... Sheesh!.... It's like having a part-time job, except the
> pay isn't very good.
>
> Also, contra-intuitive as it may seem, Ubuntu took 61 seconds
> from a cold start to a usable desktop. XP took 24 seconds last
> time I put a clock on it. Will probably get longer when I
> finish installing MS Office and a lot of other stuff.... but the
> Ubuntu build didn't have much on it either.

<grin> I like the analogy.
Welcome to the *real world* of Windows -vs- Linux. Much of the hype about
Linux in general is just political correctness amongst a world that is
predominantly anti-Microsoft. The same can be said for Mac/Apple.
Linux does a fine job in the right situations where it is well suited and we
run a pretty good chunk of Linux boxes around here,...but it is just another
Operating System, there is nothing mystical or magical about it.

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Phillip Windell
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