I would imagine worst case scenario he could boot off a LiveCD which is easy for anyone to do while at home. At least with Linux/BSD when it fails to completely boot and load all your fancy GUI stuff you have other capabilities (whether or not you are aware of what is available) which is far better than when windows fails to boot with some unremarkable STOP error code and a dozen sets of hex codes that you can in no way save other than pen/paper or a camera phone (I've done this before while in a data center to go back to my workstation and research the problem). Then with windows your best recovery procedure is commonly recovery console which is all command line based requiring you to do things at least as advanced as you might have to do in a non-windows OS recovery situations. Yes, you *might* get away with safe mode but more times than not that does not work just the same in my experience, albeit most of the windows I deal with is not home users / or workstations. I can walk thru a corrupted windows registry file recovery via recovery console in my sleep practically now a days. Anywho... top post rules! Lookout! (or is it called Outlook?) -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Mike Miller Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 7:01 PM To: TCLUG List Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Yet another forecast of Linux doom On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Dave Carlson wrote: > Or, ideally, the newbie with the exact same problem will search the > Ubuntu bug list, noting their similarity to a bug that was filed that > included your workaround and relevant discussion. And he'll do it using someone else's computer because Gnome isn't working and he can't open Firefox. Then he'll have to write down a few possible solutions and hope that one of them works when he gets home. Mike _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list