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Is Linux or Windows Easier To Install?

Posted by timothy on from the click-click-click dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Fdisk? you gotta be kidding by pi_rules · · Score: 1, Troll


    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.