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Creslyn 14th Oct 2008
"But even then X, KDE, Gnome, don't really render that well. You want to believe it does, you hypnotized yourself to believe it does, but the sad truth is it doesn't."

I hypnotized myself into thinking you were intelligent but alas, I was proven otherwise. Plenty of sad truthes to go around, eh? Your remarks of bias doesn't actually equate to any sort of sound practical research any more than booting up a live disc with the expectation it was going to bake you a cake. Vague personal accounts of your experience doesn't make it even remotely the gospel truth. From the sounds of your complaining, I'm amazed that you could manage a computer to obey with opening Notepad in Windows let alone click Next in an Ubuntu install process. Dependant on the needs of consumers, and myself, the linux distribution installation varies in a myriad of needs as does Windows, but from base to base, Ubuntu does take the cake on the install time. With very little research anyone can piece together a compatible box (and there's quite a selection to choose from) and have Ubuntu running within no time. In fact, on every single system I've had under various linux distributions, they have been completely supported out of the box with only one or two glaring issues (pulse audio on fedora was a pain). The post configuration of Windows would include setting up antivirus, spyware defense mechanisms, running the automatic updater to get to the latest service pack and latest microsoft attempt to fix the OS the last patch broke, grabbing the latest drivers for your perhiprials, etc, etc, just to perform some email and web browsing techniques.

Interestingly enough, I don't even need to perform an install on any machine under linux live cds just to do that. My point is that while there's always going to be downsides and upsides to any operating system, just because you can't seem to get your head out of Vista UI doesn't mean any other end user can't either.

Polite as always,
a MS Server 2003 Administrator.
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