> Personally, I have been on and off with linux for 2 > reasons 1) Not knowing how to recover a crash (steps and what so ...) 2) > Not being able to move it to new hard drive or change partition size > without messing up the system. Windows and Linux are the same. If windows crashes, you boot from a rescue disk, migrate data. and reinstall. It's the same for Linux. There are some advanced things you can do to get fancy with Linux and avoid reinstall, things which I imagine are not easily possible on windows. Those are a bonus, not a drawback. > Think it over and I think more people will get interested in Linux as it > comes clear how to solve some basic but serious problems. In my experience, it's the other way around. I see crashes less often with Linux. When using windows, I'm also always surprised how they demand reboots all the time whenever they install something or update software in the background. It very difficult to accomplish tasks on Windows that take more than a few days, with all the reboots. My Linux boxes are usually up for months at a time, and go down only for lightning storms and major upgrades. If there are Linux adoption issues, I think it's partly because windows ships by default on pretty much every PC. If Linux shipped by default, and you had to buy windows CDs and install them yourself, the tables would be turned. Jeremy On Tuesday 18 September 2007 12:34:06 pm MIM wrote: > I would strongly recommend that one of our meetings be devoted to recover > systems from crashes. Personally, I have been on and off with linux for 2 > reasons 1) Not knowing how to recover a crash (steps and what so ...) 2) > Not being able to move it to new hard drive or change partition size > without messing up the system. > > Think it over and I think more people will get interested in Linux as it > comes clear how to solve some basic but serious problems. We can make a > series of it , hands on fixing the un-fixable :) :), graphic card, sound > card, ... and backup, restore, crash fix, and similar. > > I know we can find that on the net but hands on is the best way with some > notes for sure. > > Thanks > > > --------------------------------- > Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out.