i installed suse 10.1 linux on my m/c 2 days ago on a dual boot with windows
xp prof. but i cannot seem to do anything with linux and when i contacted
linux forums they treated me like an idiot,what i now need to know is how do
i get rid of linux on my pc as when i boot up it sits waiting for me to say
which system i want and if i am not quick enough it boots up in suse linux,i
will still keep cd`s incase of problems with windows,i cannot format hard
drive as i lost my copy of windows and a repair shop installed windows xp
prof. for me.
Thank you and please help me.
I have helped many individuals install linux as a dual boot on their
computers. What is amazes me most of them are seniors, tired of
spyware, virus, reinstalling, etc., who are surprizingly very good at
learning linux. They have are open mineded and willing to take some time
to learn something different. Plus, the latest dristo's of linux are no
harder to use than windows, email readers are email readers, browser are
browsers. Either you know how to use them or you don't, doesn't matter
what OS you are using.
I used the Linux forums years ago for help to learn when I was just
getting started and people there were very helpful and stayed with me
until my problem was solved. Now days, I help others when they ask.
Part of the problem that I see in my every day encounters with the public
is many people don't even know how to use a computer and don't want to
learn how or I should say aren't willing to take the time or spend the
money to be tutored. They hope some other magical OS out there will be
more user friendly. I think they want a computer off the enterprise that
they can just talk to and have their commands followed. There have been
many days I just wanted to tell the person, you are too stupid to own a
computer, box it up and take it back to the store and get your money back.
And I am talking about Windows users.
But I won't place all the blame on the users. It is the computer industry.
They want to sell computers!! When old grandma goes down to the big
computer store and ask the salesman, are they hard to use, he answers, Oh
no, just point and click, that is all that is to it, you don't need to
know anything else. Well, they do need to know a lot more. After all these
years I am still teaching people how to send an attachment with a email or
how to get an attachment, how to save a file and find it again.
I was tutoring an older gentleman, who own a plane, on email use. I told
him I had just bought an airplane. I have never flow a plane and have no
training, but I wanted to take a trip about 350 miles to another
city the next day. I ask him did he think I would have any problems. He
thought I was crazy! I wonder why. I mean isn't like start it up, pull the
trottle back and take off. Sort of like using a computer isn't it???
Well, my rant is over for the time being...