On Monday 31 January 2005 03:25 pm, Larry le Mac wrote:
> >From: James Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> <snip>   ;o)
>
> I just want to straighten one thing out, I am not a PC/Windoze
> advocate, more a devils advocate, and I do enjoy stiring things
> sometimes.
>
> I bought a Dell 450MHz laptop for my wife and received it today,
> and IT SUCKS !!!
>
> The most disgusting thing ever!
>
> Oh, and Win XP is even worse, though I already knew this...
>
> It'll probably go straight back on the auctions site where it
> came from.

Before you consign the lappie to doom, you might want to try downloading a 
Knoppix CD-R and see if Linux makes the lappie happier. I have a ThinkPad and 
I run Debian on it, and I am a very happy camper. Knoppix is basically Debian 
in a self-booting live CD state.

Then again, if that is a Dell Inspiron laptop, it's likely that it's more than 
just the operating system that sucks. Dell's Latitude laptops are a bit 
better made, but lately that's really not mattered...anything Dell makes 
isn't so great at this point.

If you like the MacOS X interface and you have a little less than adequate RAM 
you might want to try a Linux install that uses "xfce" as its window 
manager/desktop environment instead of KDE, which is the default wm/de on 
Knoppix. Xfce is lighter than either one and if you install KDE and Gnome 
libraries you can run just about any GUI Linux program in xfce instead.

Yeah, yeah, this is a Mac list, but I thought he should know about this.

Take care,
Michelle
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