Absolutely Jim. I entirely did away with my windows
partition after dual-booting for a few months. A few
weeks ago I re-installed wandows on a small drive
because I realized that I missed Half-Life more then I
hate wandows. Its sad I know.....
I will be stuck with a perfunctory windows partition
until I either lose interest in games, wine works
perfectly for all programs or all my favorite programs
are ported to linux. Yep, that 3 gig wandows
partition is going to be with me like a carbuncle for
the forseeable future.
Dacia
--- Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reward comes when you get it working! I love
> the sense of
> accomplishment...the when you are using the programs
> and they don't crash, I
> sit here and smile all the time I am at the
> 'puter....I am almost ready to
> completely un-install windoze and run a linux only
> box here!
>
> Jim
>
>
> I downloaded & installed mandrake 7.0 on the
> recommendation of a friend. I had a little bit of
> experience working in a Unix environment (FreeBSD I
> believe) but that was the extent of my familiarity.
> I
> spent about two weeks reading hardware lists and
> gathering information about IRQs, DMAs, Horizontal
> and
> Vertical refresh rates, etc etc.
>
> The initial install went just fine. The only things
> that didn't work right were my cdburner and I
> couldn't
> change any of my desktop settings in KDE (just
> learned
> why today from someones post to this list.). That
> didn't bother me particularly.
>
> Boy I was overwhelmed the first time I sat looking
> at
> a KDE desktop wanting to listen to a cd and read my
> email. It was at that point that I really began to
> realize how much I took wandows for granted.
>
> Anyway, theres my .02 on that subject. Newbies
> aren't
> necessarily stupid nor uninformed, just lacking in
> experience with this specific OS.
>
>
> Dacia
>
>
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In a message dated 5/27/00 9:54:47 PM Mountain
> > Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > writes:
> >
> > > P.S. IMHO any newbie who downloads their first
> > install of
> > > Linux instead of buying a documented package is
> > truly nuts,
> >
> > <------- is truely nuts then...<snicker>...DLed my
> > first (RH 5.1)....managed
> > to install it and fumble around, then I got smart
> > and bought Linux
> > Unleased...so I could absorb clues in a faster
> > fashion
> >
> > Jerry
> >
>
>
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