Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 20:23 -0600, Andy Pickens wrote: >> Not to worry. Fedora isn't ready to take on MS head on. >> >> I decided maybe it was time to adopt Fedora as my primary OS. That was >> months ago, and I'm still not there (e.g. I still can't burn a CD); now >> I've had to drop it, at least until I get the Income taxes done. >> >> I must admit that I have no experience with recent releases of Windows >> (I'm happy with Win 98), but you install MS stuff and it works, no >> messing about. The sad part is that Linux based programs adapted to >> Windows also are easy to install. Thunderbird and Firefox were no >> problem, at all, with Windows. But it wasn't that easy with Fedora. >> >> Sorry ... > ---- > what are you sorry for? Anyone who has no experience with a version of Agree with most of what Craig says, Fedora has delivered great CD and DVD-writing out of the box for me with k3b working better than a paid-for CD writing app like Nero in the Windows world. USB memory sticks and HDDs "just work" for me as well. MSFT stuff does generally work well on an MSFT OS to give them their due, but you pay for it not only with money and loss of Freedom (to use a hoity-toity word) but with having to accept the crap that comes along with it like the malware, spyware, viruses and worms that want to delete your work product. You can make an argument Fedora "isn't ready to take MS head on" but not by using these kind of 'problems' to show it: consider to complain about Wifi support for example instead next time. -Andy
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