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Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think
rchapman writes "Mad Penguin writer Simon Gerber has published an amusing review of Windows XP as seen from a Linux users point of view. He really makes you feel like you are trying to use Windows for the first time after exclusively using Linux. The article covers everything from the hideous installer and its lack of partitioning/formatting capabilities to the utter wasteland that is the Windows desktop, devoid of useful applications and everything in between. A fun read."
How many of you own Apple notebooks? How many have blown away OS X to put a PPC linux distro on there?
I know of 5 of them as well as the one Apple toilet seat laptop I have with ubuntu on it.
Why? OSX is a horrible PITA on that older hardware. you have to do a song and dance fight to get it installed (10.3 at least is that way) Oh and cince the one I bought did not come with a copy of any OS trying to get a copy of os9 that it it still has the license to have on it is like pulling teeth.
So I gave up and put ubuntu on it and discovered that linux on a laptop is absolutely a dream when you have high end laptop hardware like Apple.
Dell, HP and the other laptops are low grade crap compared to an Apple Laptop when it comes to running linux on them. I was amazed at the lack of any fight with hardware.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
If you read TFA, you'll see that this is an attempt at humor.
A very very lame attempt at humor.