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Switching to Windows, Not as Easy as You Think

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the turnabout-is-fair-play dept.

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."

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  1. keep living in your dreamworld by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gah.

  2. Take your fucking Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And shove it up your butt

  3. Linux using Burger King employees rejoice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This article is sure to be liked by all 4 Linux users who don't use Windows at work (I guess you work at Burger King). Now you dorks can rejoin normal society by using the OS prefered by 95% of the computer users in the world and hopefully develop skills to get a better job at the same time.

  4. Re:Denial: Not just a river in Egypt by Lumpy · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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  5. Re:No partitioning? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Not quite but only if you do it the MS way.

    When a disk crashed at the office I needed to set up a second to copy the files to, an 80gig'er. In order to facilitate the possiblity of having to use a Linux Live CD I wanted it formated in FAT32 [NSTF is not reliable in some Linux distros].

    Surprise.....no can do.

    MS will only format 32gig in FAT32 [standard is some 4000gig] to force users to move to NTFS.

    Another illegal monopolistic move by MS

  6. Re:RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If you want to cuistomize where Docs and Setings go during, use the deployment tools, asswipe.

  7. A joke. A bad joke. by shoolz · · Score: 1, Troll

    If you read TFA, you'll see that this is an attempt at humor.

    A very very lame attempt at humor.

  8. Re:RTFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And where is the documentation on the Linux box for how and why to setup multiple partitions for your linux install?