I recently reinstalled WinXP on a friend's Dell computer. I had to sort through CDs looking for drivers to make sound and modem work - Windows just refused to locate them on the driver disks. It was annoying.
I also recently installed RedHat 8.0 on my own machine: load disc, come back to insert disc 2, then 3, restart, run. I did have to put mp3 capability back on, but that was just a click of the RPM.
While I'm no guru at either OS - my friend would have to have spent who knows how long on hold waiting for help to reinstall Windows.
I hate sunny weather. Fortunately, I live in place which has more "good" (overcast/drizzly/rainy) weather than bad weather (sunny). I would hate to think that in the future, some sun-poisoned weather-control-freak could ruin everything by _preventing_ rain! Of course, if they made it rain more often...
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I recently reinstalled WinXP on a friend's Dell computer. I had to sort through CDs looking for drivers to make sound and modem work - Windows just refused to locate them on the driver disks. It was annoying.
I also recently installed RedHat 8.0 on my own machine: load disc, come back to insert disc 2, then 3, restart, run. I did have to put mp3 capability back on, but that was just a click of the RPM.
While I'm no guru at either OS - my friend would have to have spent who knows how long on hold waiting for help to reinstall Windows.
I hate sunny weather. Fortunately, I live in place which has more "good" (overcast/drizzly/rainy) weather than bad weather (sunny). I would hate to think that in the future, some sun-poisoned weather-control-freak could ruin everything by _preventing_ rain! Of course, if they made it rain more often ...