Subj : Re: A linux positive experience!
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Fri Sep 03 2004 01:38 pm

Kenneth Lantrip enlightened us with:
> Finally did get Win2000 problems worked out.  But if I had been a
> newbie, I'd have had to re-install everything from the OS up.
>
> I just thought it kinda nice that Debian didn't have any trouble
> what-so-ever about new hardware.

Windows remembers all your hardware, which could make bootup faster
because nothing has to be re-detected. And you know the painfully slow
detection program MS has - see what happens when you install it.
Downside is that you can't change hardware without nagging.

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

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