On Wednesday 02 February 2005 16:55, David Curry wrote: >Pete Choppin wrote: >> I was just looking for a consensus on this... >> >> I have been working with Fedora Core 3 for the past month. My new >> years resolution was to learn Linux. So far, so good. >> >> I created a dual-boot Fedora / Windows XP. I am now seriously >> considering going completely 100% Linux and dumping my Windows >> partition entirely. >> >> The question is - can you live completely without Windows, or do >> you sooner or later have to resort to Windows again? >> >> -- >> Pete > >You've had lots of good responses to your question, Pete. The > consensus is, > >Tchnically - Yes! Practically, it depends on the user and the > user's environment. For your immediate concern - whether or not > to dump an existing Windows XP partition - I suggest that you > consider that partition as close to zero cost insurance. The XP > license is a sunk cost, your existing applications are functional > if needed, and your costs at the margin are disk storage space. If > you need/want more harddisk space, 40G - 80G hard drives are > available at nominal cost. What do you mean technically its possible? I came up thru the ranks of a Quest Super Elf, Timex 1000, TI-99/4a, hitting the CoCo & os9 20 some years ago, thence to a big box amiga which gradually grew into a fire breathing monster for an amiga (I did my online banking with it way back when too), then to RH5.1 on a 400mhz K6-II when it came out, its still my firewall but a bit fresher than 5.1, and still running FC2 here on this box. Never had a windows box, and don't intend to ever have one any longer than it takes to put a bootable linux cd in the drive and install a real OS. I simply cannot see the use or utility in screwing around with all their damnedable viri, worms, keyloggers and other nefarious software that an Active X site can install on your box without even asking if you want it installed. You want a job done in linux? 98% of it is a button click away. The rest you might have to write a 300 line bash script to do. <shrug> Life is way the hell and gone too short to put up with that M$ crap. And at 70, I'm all to aware of just how short it could be. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
