atw: Re: Windows-free at last.

Hi Austecchies,

Getting back to the technical aspects of this subject. I've just blown Ubuntu 
Linux off my machine. I bought a cheap Netbook for travelling and it had Ubuntu 
Linux. I thought that this would be okay because I have some Unix experience. 

However it all went downhill when I wanted some system security and virus 
protection. There are no commercial products for this and the self-loving Linux 
people on the forums claim that such things are unnecessary. According to them 
people write viruses because they hate Bill Gates! Therefore Linux is pure and 
innocent. It's true that a virus cannot affect the system settings because you 
have to use a password to change these things. So Linux is safe, but my 
personal data was freely available. I tried to install the "freeware" virus 
checkers and firewalls without any success and, believe me, after many hours of 
trying.

I have decided that Linux is more about the journey than the destination. Some 
of the readme files on these tools regale you with the excitement of 
incompatibilities that you can spend many happy hours resolving. Aaaargh.

The final straw was trying to install the Vodafone broadband internet stick. 
That probably had the longest readme file and the worst potential consequences. 
Needless to say, I never got that to work.

A few weeks ago I installed the (temporarily) free Windows 7 pre-release 
client. It was the easiest and quickest operating system installation system I 
have ever performed. It runs very fast on the small netbook. I think that it 
also boots up quicker than Ubuntu, but I can't measure that now. Even the 
Vodafone thing worked immediately.

For me, the price of the free Linux experience was far too high. I acknowledged 
at the beginning that I would have to adopt the role of system administrator 
and troubleshooter. Somewhere along the way I never got to be a normal user.

Oops stand by for the Micky backlash!

Ian Gabriel

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Write Ideas 
  To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, November 05, 2009 11:07 AM
  Subject: atw: Re: Windows-free at last.


  Well that's the recommended minimum.

  The bare minimum is 4Gb.

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/SystemRequirements

  Cheers,


        Micky G.

        Write Ideas
        Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
        http://www.writeideas.com.au/


       

  On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 07:53 +0800, Rebecca Caldwell wrote:

    Wow, that’s impressive re: the disk space required!

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