Is Linux or Windows Easier To Install?

Mark Cappel writes: "Joe Barr, a LinuxWorld.com columnist, compares Linux and Windows installations. He expected Windows to be faster and easier since Microsoft has been at it for 21 years. (DOS 1.0 was released 21 years ago today.) It turns out Red Hat is quicker and less manually intensive."

Comments

Who cares?

[Maxx]

Who the hell cares and why would you install windoze anyway?

Re:Fdisk? you gotta be kidding

[pi_rules]

Ok ok, let's stop right here at the first paragraph. So, he already had his drive partitioned from a previous install (meaning he didn't have to mess with fips, partition magic, etc.) and he used fdisk to partition. And exactly how is this easier than a Windows install?


Try it the other way around... I had an existing Linux installation on an 8GB disk. I move the 8GB disk to the pimary-slave spot (jumpers) and slapped a new 8GB blank disk into the primary-master position.

... Insert Windows NT 4.0 disk and begin installation. Lo and be-hold the bugger won't install on primary-master becuase there's stuff on primary-slave that it thinks is evil. It halts... refuses plainly to install. I'm not asking it to go onto primary-slave at all!. I remove the primary-slave drive, try again. Viola. Now that's intuitive.

Re:Red Hat Linux most certainly IS...

[ScottKin]

More FUD!!!!

Let's dissect this FUD-monster, item by item and see what's inside!

1) No problem there, with the exception that he's installing WinME, which (I must admit) was a lousy product from Microsoft

2) Did your Mandrake Install contain optimized drivers for VIA motherboards? NO! The VIA driver install is NOT needed!

3) Did your Mandrake Install contain anything specific for your SBLive! card, like EAX support? NO! It installed GENERIC DRIVERS that support SB and SB-compatable cards with NO SPECIAL ENHANCEMENTS!

4) Did your Mandrake Install contain any specific drivers for your Epson 740 to allow you to check ink levels, clean the nozzle ports on ink carts or do any color-correction? NO! Your Mandrake Install simply installed GENERIC /dev/lpr or /dev/prn drivers.

5) Were the nVidia RPMs you installed 3rd-party or actual nVidia Drivers? If it was 3rd-party, what are you going to do when your card dies and you try to get an RMA on it from nVidia and they ask you if you're used 3rd-party drivers on the card?

6) Since Realtek is only one of the dozens upon dozens of NIC manufacturers out there, it's a no-brainer that MS would not include drivers for it - and installing NIC drivers is so trivial that it appears that you simply included this step to increase the FUD Factor.

And don't even get me started on that software abortion called OpenOffice!

ScottKin