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hm_murdock:
Microsoft Bollocks XP! Just like I said.

Duo Maxwell:
I've found that when waiting on a replacement part or some other such shit for a comp, that if I "forget" to remove a live CD that they will use linux and not even know that they are doing so. The Linspire live 5.0 CD is the one I usually leave lol.

Calum:
my dad's fifty five. he learnt how to use windows and ms office pretty in depth at the local college, but he doesn't own a computer, and when he's round here he doesn't seem to have any problems using my computer. to him the choice of OS is something that isn't important, in fact it's a choice i'm not even sure he's aware of, but that doesn't stop him being able to use other OSs with equal ease to windows.

i think this "windows is easy" stuff is not only because people have "learnt" one OS (ie: windows) first, but because they have a mental block about it too, mainly. my dad doesn't have this mental block because he's not really interested in which OS he's using if the programs work in it for him. i'm just using this as an example not only of how age doesn't really matter here, but also that people who are not too well versed in non windows OSs really don't have too many problems nowadays when it comes to using them.

PS: i know 55 is not the same as 68, but my dad didn't even really use computers at work till he was about 40 etc (not windows ones of course! it'd be mainframe or something i think, with remote terminals) so the principle is roughly the same.

by the way worker, your explanation about the cadillac et cetera was very good, well done, a quality piece of writing. that's the sort of thing that should be collected on some sort of best of" area on the forums for posterity.


--- Quote --- if not you can try Wine (or Crossover office, however most Linux fanboys are against it because it's commercial)
--- End quote ---
actually it's because it sucks ass. it's incredibly fiddly to set up, and it doesn't work properly with most programs, and when it does it's slowly and unpredictably. with these things in mind it is hardly the best choice to convince a windows user that linux has all the best programs for them to switch to. the wine configuration alone would be enough to turn off any windows user for life. if somebody wants to use a windows program, they should use it in windows (oh! blasphemy!), simple as that.

Calum:
and another thing:

if isa support is gone in xp, then how is a person supposed to use their perfectly good isa sound cards etc? fedora linux (and many others) support these just fine. and what benefit is the user seeing by dropping the support? if other things in the OS still have the ISA etc dependencies then there's no disk space saving, although this is negligible anyway with new versions of windows since they are so huge regardless. It makes no sense, why drop ISA support when there's no saving in space, speed or functionality?

is it just because it's "old"? to my knowledge nobody has found anything wrong with the ISA specification so in my opinion being old is no excuse, if it works, and there's no cost to continuing support, then what is their f*!$

toadlife:
Windows XP does support ISA cards. What they don't support is non plug-n-pray ISA cards. So if your ISA card is plug-n-pray it will work with XP - hence the filename "ISAPNP.SYS"

Someone asked, "how can a file become corrupted"? In the vast majority of cases where I've seen a file become corrupted in Windows, the problem has been bad sectors. I would suggets doing a chkdsk /r on the boot drive of your dad's computer. Another cause can be faulty memory and/or motherboard components that cause writes to disk to become corrupted. My money is on bad sectors though.

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