I am currently a computer technician at a computer store and have been using
computers since I was in grade 2 (yay Commodor 64s!). I have installed all
the Windows OS's including Win 3.0 (which isn't an OS :)). I can't say I
have ever had PROBLEMS with installing Windows, but I know that I installed
Linux on a P166 which took me 20 minutes to get everything I wanted on the
computer with one reboot, and it takes about an hour or more to into Windows
95/98SE onto the same machine. On my home computer, I can reinstalled Linux
and be on the internet in less than 10 minutes.
Linux is MUCH faster to install, and I actually find it easier (even for a
newbie like me... new to Linux anywase)
On Saturday 16 June 2001 20:22, civileme wrote:
> A friend of one of the folks here is finishing a Ph.D. in
> mathematics. He uses an IBM laptop and he was running mandrake
> 7.1. Recently, he installed 8.0. It didn't like his mouse, so
> he used an alternate image and installed kernel 2.2.19 and set
> up that one in the bootloader. His total time to install was
> 1.5 hours.
