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Thread ID: 120619 2011-09-17 06:26:00 Transitioning from Windows to Linux. Woohoo! baabits (15242) PC World Chat
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1231924 2011-09-18 06:18:00 oh wow less service calls
maybe users just don't know its broken yet hehehe just kidding
good luck guys
milkster1976 (16554)
1231925 2011-09-18 06:41:00 Either way, regardless of the reason, less support calls means less support calls, that's a good thing :-D Chilling_Silence (9)
1231926 2011-09-18 07:32:00 Linux cant be "broken" as it's based on UNIX. Unlike windows which still pushes its rubbish ntfs filesystem. icow (15313)
1231927 2011-09-18 07:42:00 In my view that is one of Windows biggest handicaps. If anything happens to one of the registry files your whole system can go t!ts up whereas with Linux it can be just an easy edit of a text file to repair.

Well that's a good point, but as I said, I'm probably biased as I'm more used to Windows. I wouldn't have a clue where to find the damn config files to fix Linux :( - but a full registry restore is pretty easy.

Funny though, Ubuntu now comes with a 'configuration editor' which looks suspiciously like regedit. I have no idea what it actually edits, config files or something else... knowing Ubuntu it will probably be their own weird proprietary thing.
Agent_24 (57)
1231928 2011-09-18 07:55:00 Linux cant be "broken" as it's based on UNIX. Unlike windows which still pushes its rubbish ntfs filesystem.

About 10 years ago a power failure would most likely destroy an ext2 partition, NTFS and FAT32 took so much crap more and survived :p

OSX FTW!!! :D
Cato (6936)
1231929 2011-09-18 08:04:00 Funny though, Ubuntu now comes with a 'configuration editor' which looks suspiciously like regedit. I have no idea what it actually edits, config files or something else... knowing Ubuntu it will probably be their own weird proprietary thing.Looks like it has an XML backend. Unusual concept. Wikipedia is a bit harsh about it:
Traditional CLI (Command Line Interface) power users of GNOME have criticized it as an excuse to over-simplify the user interface and design for the lowest common denominator. - source (en.wikipedia.org)

Mind you, CLI power users probably never go any higher than run level 3. :p
Jen (38)
1231930 2011-09-18 08:04:00 Either way, regardless of the reason, less support calls means less support calls, that's a good thing :-D
Just ignore him Chill it is obvious from his nickname that he is still sucking on the MS t!t.
mikebartnz (21)
1231931 2011-09-18 08:07:00 Just ignore him Chill it is obvious from his nickname that he is still sucking on the MS t!t.Keep it nice please ... Jen (38)
1231932 2011-09-18 08:07:00 Linux cant be "broken" as it's based on UNIX. Unlike windows which still pushes its rubbish ntfs filesystem. I managed to break 11.04 today while doing nothing more than installing a theme. :badpc: wainuitech (129)
1231933 2011-09-18 08:13:00 How long did it take to upgrade each PC to Ubuntu? QW. (15883)
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