Re: Save Windows XP! The clock is ticking

On May 20, 10:14 pm, "Brenda Ann" <bren...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "D Peter Maus" <DPeterM...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
messagenews:8tNYj.4021$we7.2044@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > enigma wrote:
> >>>   You DO know there are better alternatives, don't you?
>
> >> Nothing beats Windows for GAMING.
>
> >   Apparently. Appropriate for a play O/S.
>
> I have nothing personally against Linux builds... but they're totally
> useless to me.  There is no software for my webstation that will run on
it,
> nor are there versions of much of the other software I have and use
> constantly.  Aside from that, as was brought up before, the simplest
thing
> to do in XP is a major PITA in Linux, unless you are practically a
> command-level user: Installing new software. I have tried at least 8
> different iterations of Linux, and each of them has been a major
headache,
> telling me things like "you need this file in order to install this
other
> file" or simple networking that refuses to see anything else on our LAN
> (though it does pop right up onto the web... )

The issue of having to load various programs to get a tarball to
compile is very true. A good program will have do***entation
indicating what should be loaded for a successful compilation. But
this isn't the end of the world.

Suse linux is pretty bullet proof.