Recommedations

[mwafkowski]

That's pretty nasty stuff but re: the 160 gig HD, Windows XP supports drives
up to 137 Gigs but will support much larger drives after installing SP1.

Good luck in which ever you decide.

Regards,
MRW

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brittany" <k9wolfz at bellsouth.net>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 6:41 AM
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 at users.sourceforge.net>
> To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> 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..
> >
> >
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