windows xp is horrible to install on a large hard drive (unless you quick format). i would take linux over windows in that regard anytime. i worked at a native american chamber of commerce and found that when people started with linux and i tried to put them on a windows machine they would bitch and complain constantly about windows. just goes to show you that once you get comfortable with something it is hard to change. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > Linux is free if your time is worth nothing. ;) >> >> But seriously, there is a grain of truth to that. Especially on the >> desktop. >> > > > I remember a friend telling me that his friend had a lot of experience and > could install Slackware in only about 8 hours, but that was about 17 years > ago. I have installed Ubuntu on a bunch of machines in the past couple of > years and it usually took about 5 minutes of my time to get it working quite > nicely. After that, to get loads of software installed is another five > minutes of my time. I've also installed Windows XP a few times in the past > several years and the Windows installation took about the same amount of my > time as Ubuntu. > > So I'm thinking of the quote as very true under some conditions, especially > the conditions of 1994, but it is much less true under most conditions of > today. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20110308/34f12c19/attachment.html>