Jeff Rollin wrote: > On 21/12/06, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The risk that the user might nuke the partitions containing Windows is >> always there regardless of what distro you use. You still make the same >> decisions, fdisk, cfdisk and gparted are still there. Whether you click >> here, click OK then say "oops..." or type "fdisk /dev/sda" <some stuff> >> then say "oops" you're still gonna say "oops" .... >> > This is the part where I point out (for the benefit of readers *other* > than Alan, probably) that the user, if he is going to have to > (re)install Windows, is at risk of nuking the partitions already > containing Windows/Linux/SkyOS/$MYFAVOS anyway. "Whether you click > here, click ok then say 'oops' or type 'fdisk c:' <some stuff> then > say 'oops' you're still gonna say 'oops'". > > Last I heard, btw, Windows was still using a nasty > type-at-me-don't-click partitioner. > > My £0.02 > > Jeff. >
All things considered, Mandrake is easier to install than windoze any day. You think about it, you set up the drives, select ALL the software you can fit and hit the install button. How easy is that? You only have to reboot once too. I counted six reboots the last time I installed XP for somebody. It took longer too. Then you get to install the software you had to buy, including anti-virus, adware protection, trojan watchers and all that. Yea, I pick Linux. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
