Kier

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 03:26:30 -0800, raylopez99 wrote:

> Verdict: installation of OSes suck, and I doubt Linux is any
> better.

Well, actually, in that you would be quite wrong. Linux is, for the most
part, amazingly easy to install. I should know, since I've installed a
great many distros on various machines, both laptop and desktop, over the
past few years. At first it was a modest challenge, but nowadays it's a
breeze.

For one thing, the modern distros all have built in partioning tools
(Mandriva is one of the best in this regard, their GUI partitioner is
absolutely excellent and very straight-forward and simple to use and
understand). Also, most a the required drivers for hardware and present
upion installation. YOu can also choose what software you want to install,
or just go for the defaults.

Most distros will also pick up any Windows installation and add it to the
sequence so it can be chosen at boot time.

So basically, unless you are very unlucky with your hardware - which tends
to happen less and less these days - installing Linux doesn't suck at all.

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Kier