On Friday 02 January 2004 02:49, E. Hines wrote: > Screw XP Home--dual boot that machine with Mandrake. You will use > Windows less and less as time goes by, and you will NEVER regret > it. Put a Fat partition on it to share files between XP and Linux. > > My home has 8 machines, all but one dual boot. I am in Windows > maybe once a month. If you play games it will be more, but dual > boot is the answer. My wife is on a Linux machine, and she said to > a friend last week, "If I can use Linux, it must be easy" (we were > talking about him installing dual boot with XP and Mandrake on a > new machine he was buying). Our friend is tired of virus crap and > constant updates. Aren't you??? And Mandrake is easy enough even > your wife and kids can use it. > > E > Of course, if they want to go on using windows, let them until the next time they are infected <g> Make sure that the data is being saved to a fat32 partition, then when their windows won't run show them that they can access all their work without it. ;-)
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