<http://chasblogspot.blogspot.com/2007/10/linux-rescue-cds-can-also-repair.html> No need to buy Linux apps, they're all free -thousands of them- , as would be available in Linux Mint, for example: <http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/10-best-linux-distros-for-2011-704584> Linux is now point and click, all GUI, and it's free, though there are custom distros as well: <http://lwn.net/Distributions/> I'm not trying to sell it to anyone, though. But I don't have a need for any HDD, I can carry my USB or CD and boot into any PC or laptop and do what everyone else does with their preferred version of Windows. --- On Thu, 12/15/11, ChasM49@xxxxxxx <ChasM49@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: ChasM49@xxxxxxx <ChasM49@xxxxxxx> Subject: [triadtechtalk] Re: Internet Options To: triadtechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, December 15, 2011, 8:14 PM when it comes to linux... yes it works.. is nice when you learn it... but go out to any place and buy programs for linux like you can find for windows... even Appl has severe limits as to types of programs that one finds for use in windows and Apple is a fine machine when doing graphics...... for about 98 percent of the average pc user linux is a nice toy to play with but for a dedicated every day user about near useless... and yes Linux does have some great tools to work on a windows pc.... but...... does take a bit more to know how to work with them than does for windows programming...... and if doing trouble shooting on a windows pc not very many every day users can follow or use a linux file to fix a windows pc... sorry Armando ... not ripping on you... but do have to consider... availability of windows help is way lots more than linux for the every day guy.... most folks feel Linux is for the eletist pc freak... not joe public pc owner...... just my opinion btw..... but think is a fair feeling on Linux held by a majority of folks....... chuck In a message dated 12/15/2011 12:31:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, brian99@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: Armando has constantly recommended Linux