Future: Linux will replace Microsoft Windows getting 98% desktop market!

[Anthony W. Youngman]

In article <a6vh21$hgisc$1 na ID-83783.news.dfncis.de>, Rick [Kitty5]
<rick na kitty5.com> writes
>> Linux will never be as easy to install as Windows? I've got news for
>> you!
>> 
>> In my experience linux has LONG been EASIER to install than windows.
>> Installing doze has been an absolute nightmare on far too many
>> occasions. Take my current attempts with Win2K. I'm trying to install
>> that on the same disk (different drive letter) to Win98. It stomps all
>> over the 98 partition, reboots, and blue-screens. Installing 98 on that
>> machine was a real pain too - it kept on blue-screening, but when I gave
>> up and came back the next day it was fine...
>> 
>> On the other hand, linux has been a cinch almost since I first started
>> trying to install it with a distro called Universe. Even Slack on
>> floppies was dead easy, just thoroughly boring as I swapped floppy after
>> floppy (30 in total! :-(
>> 
>> How people can claim doze is easier to install I don't know (unless by
>> install they mean "switch on and let the auto-install just run).
>
>Another 'Linux was easy for me to install, therefore the world and his
>dog will have the exact same experience'

You missed the "doze has been a nightmare far too often" bit...
>
>Installing is a pointless argument in any event, as most users (myself
>included) are far more interested in the final result of said install.

I couldn't agree more. I just get totally fed up with the "linux is
difficult" propaganda, seeing as my experience is that doze is all too
often a nightmare...
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