HeyBub said:
EVERYBODY'S heard of Linux! The Linux acolytes have seen to that.
Some of us even tried it. It's ok if a) it runs well on your hardware
and b) if you don't have any 'must have' apps.
On my machine, running Ubuntu, version 6.x ok, 7.x early version
suffered random shutdowns, later 7 seems ok. 8.4 back to random
shutdown. 8.10 evaluations cd loads to a black screen and nothing I try
will get me to terminal mode. I run a multi-os setup using bootitng.
While Linux is running, like Hillary, it's quite likable, but I need my
quicken, my scansoft software and other stuff.
The main problem as far as I'm concerned is I just don't have all the
problems with winxp about which Linux fans so loudly complain, so the
incentive to labor at it just isn't there. I'm a retired system
programmer, if I were still working the program support in terminal mode
would be an incentive, but my programming days are over.
Dave Cohen