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To: NotQuiteCricket
Well, if all you use a PC for is web browsing and email, then it would be better to build a Linux machine.

Unfortunately, most games require the MS operating system.

8 posted on 08/12/2004 9:59:34 PM PDT by xrp
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To: xrp

Yeah, one of these days I'm going to take a stab at some Linux distro.

I do more than internet & e-mail. I also use MS Office & other applications on a daily basis (any pda's synching w/ a linux box yet?).

And, I don't think a home user should be installing a service pack, until it is available from the windowsupdate.microsoft.com site...if MS doesn't feel good enough about it to put it there, then I don't think "normal" people should be installing it.


18 posted on 08/12/2004 10:16:49 PM PDT by NotQuiteCricket (XP SP2 a.k.a. "Hi-Tech Scythe of Death")
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To: xrp
Well, if all you use a PC for is web browsing and email, then it would be better to build a Linux machine.

I have done that and noticed that although I was told how much faster Linux is, it ran way slower than windows. This was using both Redhat and Mandrake vs. Win98se, Win2k, WinXPpro on the same machine...all of them installed with no other OS to clutter things up. I really wanted Linux to work as good as advertised, but was dissappointed by the results.

I will mention that I detest Internet Exploder and refuse to use it. I liked Netscape untill AOL screwed it up, so I use Mozilla (the basis for Netscape without the yucky AOL crapola).

You can get it here: Latest Mozilla version

52 posted on 08/13/2004 11:36:23 AM PDT by EricT. (Join the Soylent Green Party...We recycle dead environmentalists.)
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