I am sorry to say this, but by the sounds of this message I would strongly recommend you DO NOT install any OS other than Windows. I dont think you are ready. Your reasons for wanting to switch just arent justified. Windows XP surely does support 80GB+ drives, and I seriously doubt Windows is trying to corrupt your BIOS!!?? The problems you are encountering are simple and typical , so if you could not solve them in Windows, you would be lost in Linux. You really need to get more experience with computers before you leave Windows. I am sorry if this offends you, and I seriously do not mean to hurt your feelings. You would not be happy with Linux. -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Brittany Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 5:42 AM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Recommedations Heres the reasons why i hate Windows so much. 1. It cost too much for an easy hacking tool, which anybody could hack into. It is not stable, ACK! The blue screen of death, well i dont get that but i do get a Internet explorer error which causes my desktop to close and to restart again and closing all of my open files, most important my downloads. I had gotten a 160GB hard drive for x mas and finially had the time to install it and I had already reformated my hard drive and notice that windows XP doesnt support big hard drives over 80GB. I hope that Linux supports it so i can use of what my money went into the hard drive that i got. Another reason why i hate windows is that i suspect it did something with my BIOS. The reasoning for my reformation is that out of no where my mouse moves the other way and if i click on certain mouse button the arrows goes up. It sometimes shuts off my programs that i am using without my permission. Brittany ----- Original Message ----- From: "WipeOut" <wipe_out@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 6:22 AM Subject: Re: Recommedations > Andy Green wrote: > > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Wednesday 18 February 2004 11:08, Brittany wrote: > > > > > > > >>I am currently running on windows XP pro and it's getting to the point of I > >>blaming Windows (Microsoft) for all of the problems that i have been > >>having. I would like to try another OS but It cant be too advanced. > >> > >> > > > >What problems have you been having? Because although Fedora is probably > >'better' than XP, it is not magic pixie dust. If your problems have another > >cause than the OS, changing the OS will not improve matters. > > > >- -Andy > > > > > > > I agree.. > > Also your move to Linux must be becasue you WANT to move to Linux rather > than because you are having issues with Windows.. There is most > definately a learning curve that you will have to go through when you > start using Linux because it works in a very different way.. If you are > now willing to go through the potentially frustrating exercise then > rather stay with Windows.. > > On a personal note, I switched my desktop to Linux over a year ago (I > had been using it on servers for a while before that) and have never > looked back.. I started with a dual boot system but after the first > month I never went back to the Windows install again so it was just a > waste of hard drive space.. It has since been dumped when I upgraded to > Fedora a short while ago from RedHat 9.. > > Later.. > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
