On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:24:34 -0500, Erik Funkenbusch wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:01:48 -0500, chrisv wrote: > >> Erik Funkenbusch wrote: >> >>>On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:36:13 -0500, JEDIDIAH wrote: >>> >>>> The beauty of a gratis LiveCD is that you can "try before you buy" >>>> with no muss, no fuss and no risk. >>> >>>Except that a LiveCD will boot slowly, run slowly, and generally give a bad >>>impression of the speed of Linux to anyone who doesn't understand the >>>issues with a LiveCD. >>> >>>It's really a dual-edged sword. >> >> Yeah, sure, Fuddie. It's really rocket science to figure that out, >> assuming that you haven't already read it. "Gee, it seems that my CD >> has to spin-up before things happen!" >> >> "Gosh, maybe there's a speed compromise to running off a CDROM!?!?!" > > Seriously. 99% of the computer using population would not know that, would > not make the connection, or would simply not care. "It's too slow, it > sucks!"
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