> You can stuff your Windoze PC with as many apps and drivers as > you like, 2K and especially XP, will do a good job of protecting > the system even if you are Administrator (which is essentially what > you want to be running as unless you're a bloody masochist).
Hmmn... does this apply to games also? AFAICR, I used to dread installing games to Win98 boxes as it most certainly will cause some dll hell. > I just don't like their automagical way of doing it, since when > things do go wrong (as they almost inevitably will except it just > takes a long time and the impact is usually a lot less crippling > than it used to be on Windows 9x), you are at a loss as to how to > fix it. Ditto. I have encountered this problem in the few WinXPs that I have come across. The last one I remember was I had difficulty convincing WinXP to use an alternative video driver so that the 9" BW monitor we wanted to use would display the video properly. WinXP kept on loading another driver after every reboot until it finally worked and I don't even know what I did right. > You trade off the loss of low-level awareness and control (which > you would have with a proper Linux distro like Slackware, Debian > or Gentoo) with the convenience of an vastly more application-rich > environment and a somewhat prettier, friendlier, more consistent > desktop. This is one of the reasons I like Linux. > > Oh yeah, two more cons of Windoze are you gotta part with a lot of > hard-earned moolah and MS' activation process is a biatch such that > even if you have a legit key, you will often feel that a raped > version is still more convenient to use. I encountered this one on my first WinXP installation. The PC that we used for installation maxed out its hard drive so I decided to replace the hard drive with a new one. I did a reinstall and tried to reactivate WinXP but it wouldn't since the activation key that I had was already used during the first installation. According to the box there is a 1-800 number that you can call so that you can get a new key but the problem is that there were no PLDT phones available just Bayantel and they can not route 1-800 calls. I ended up calling an overseas number and having to put up with a heavily accented customer support staff. Holden -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
