EXACTLY!!! As a real "techie" I think you have to measure your success
and your knowledge on how well you can trully mess up your workstation!
Because that's when you really start to learn about your system.
If you do something that bad in Windows, you don't have the liberty of
editing a few files here, or adding a few registry hacks and you're
back up and running. It doesn't work like that.
And to comment about the what was said about the kernel. Most people
have no problem running on the default kernel. And those that are
ambitious and recompile their own have a failsafe! They have their
existing kernel. If you read the instructions it tells you to get rid
of all symbolic links in /boot, edit the /usr/src/linux/Makefile to
give your new kernel a new name, and make sure it puts everything in
/boot. If the kernel doesn't work, delete it, remove the entry in
/etc/lilo.conf and run lilo. No harm done, back to ground zero!
Meanwhile Windows can't do anything to compare with that. Most people
don't know it, but Windows loads like 300 different drivers just for
your CD-ROM. Wonder why it takes so long to get a prompt from a
Windows boot disk? It's loading all those drivers to your RAM, just in
case you need to use your CD-ROM.
tdh
T. Holmes
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| You can learn a lot from trashing and rebuilding your Linux box. It's
| good practice and great way to learn about your OS and mistakes. I know
| I did. (lol)
| After a bit of time has passed, you will editing your files rather than
| always reinstalling the Linux OS.
| It's great!
|
| Roman
