OpenEuphoria

Re: off topic : WinLinux

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at CNW.COM> Nov 23, 1999
• 518 views

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:22:57 -0600, RedWordSmith
<redwordsmith at NIC.DREAMHOST.COM> wrote:

>...
>behind.  Yet another was price.  At $30 a pop, I can afford to get full
>Linux-box sets up to 3 or 4 times a year.  Windows is too expensive.  My
>old PB CDeluxe still has a DOS/Win3.11 combo on it.
>...

Wow, so you'd pay $90-$120 a year for Linux instead of paying $90 for
Windows 98, an OS that installs itself and upgrades itself (when you go
online) and has software support for just about any hardware available.  I
don't follow your logic here.  Or are you just anti-MS?

I too have tried playing with Linux (Slackware), heck, it's free for the
downloading.  But setting the thing up was quite the pain in the butt.  I
couldn't get a windows interface going before I gave up.  It just wasn't
worth it.  I wanted spend my time actually USING my computer, not trying to
figure out how to set it up...
But I may try again some day, if I find a good enough reason to put myself
to the challenge.

-- Brian