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To: Halfmanhalfamazing

Linux...yeah....I sent for the disk...got it...installed it....cost me US$80 for a complete re-format thanks to NO UNISTALL feature on the Linux disk.

hings they never mention....


2 posted on 07/26/2009 4:09:32 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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To: Tainan

I’ve never seen any operating system with an ‘uninstall’ feature. Simply format it and install whatever you want.


3 posted on 07/26/2009 4:14:47 PM PDT by perfect_rovian_storm (The worst is behind us. Unfortunately it is really well endowed.)
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To: Tainan

What? Did you pay someone $80 to reformat your disk? It’s too bad you’re not my neighbor, I’d have done it for half.

Linux disk installation procedure has a format option. Windows installation disks have format options. Why didn’t you use one?

What version of Linux did you get? Ubuntu? I recommend PCLinuxOS myself. It’s made for the non-CLI guy, the GUI kinda guy, like me.


4 posted on 07/26/2009 4:16:38 PM PDT by Big Giant Head (Running my computer bare naked for over a year with no infections at all.)
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To: Tainan

The only linux distros that have a capability for uninstallation are those which are installed in a VM - you open up the second operating system like you would open up an application ala office.

If you do a reformat and install a different operating system there can’t be an uninstall feature.

=========hings they never mention....============

All linux distros warn you during the installation process that they are going to delete everything on the hard drive before you do it. Even in CLI mode. Delete = gone. They shouldn’t have to tell you that one.

That’s one of the best(useful) pop up windows in computing history, I’d think.


6 posted on 07/26/2009 4:18:52 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing (Is MSNBC staged?)
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To: Tainan

You could have just installed it in it’s own partition and left whatever os you had still on there. For $80 I would have happy to do it for you.


12 posted on 07/26/2009 5:23:24 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Tainan

If you had to pay someone 80$ to reformat a disk what were you doing trying to install something in the first place?


16 posted on 07/26/2009 8:53:55 PM PDT by N3WBI3 (Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same package. How efficient of you. -- Londo Mollari)
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To: Tainan

Sounds like the ID10T interface on the mouse and keyboard was defective.


17 posted on 07/26/2009 11:13:18 PM PDT by Calvinist_Dark_Lord ((I have come here to kick @$$ and chew bubblegum...and I'm all outta bubblegum! ~Roddy Piper))
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To: Tainan; AFreeBird

hey, for $80..0, I would have done that, reinstalled your old clunky OS, your apps, AND washed the windows for your Wife! :)


25 posted on 07/27/2009 9:40:43 AM PDT by papasmurf (RnVjayB5b3UsIDBiYW1hLCB5b3UgcGllY2Ugb2Ygc2hpdCBjb3dhcmQh)
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To: Tainan

Excuse me? Are you saying you installed an operating system assuming you would be able to uninstall later?


26 posted on 07/27/2009 7:28:32 PM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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