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How Long Does it Take You to Tweak a New Box?
An anonymous reader asks: "When you get a new computer, how long does it take to make it 'home'? On a Windows system, there seem to be a huge number of preferences I have to choose before it is really comfortable (doing things like: installing software; changing the wallpaper and color schemes; start menu layout; and so forth). How long do you have to fiddle with computer until you have it set up the way you like? Do you use any shortcuts to speed up the process?"
Yeah, a great deal of that is because you can download a linux ISO that is already mostly up-to-date with patches. With Windows, you're stuck with whatever you have pressed on the CD.
And if it takes you 6 hours to do updates, WTF are you using, RC1 on a P120? I install XP frequently (I do a lot of side work), and I use a stock XP SP2 disk, figure on an hour, maybe 1.5 at the outside, for downloads, I tweak it while those are running... I can have a fully set up and updated XP box inside of 3 hours... 1.5 if I use a slipstream disk.
Yeah, it does take a bit longer when you have an extra 200mb of downloads and updates to do... but your post was a little too FUD-y, even for a linux zealot.
If I knew the wedgies I gave you back in 6th grade would have resulted in this . . . I might have taken a moments pause.