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about a week and a half worth of WinTel
lazygamer:
I agree, Linux's drive letter system does make more sense. I doubt you'd see me owning a mac, PC's are what I've grown up with. What about when im 25? I'll be linux competent by then and feel mac hardware to be a waste of money.
I will say that in my limited time I've used a mac, they've always been every bit as good as a PC, if they aren't better, then they're certainly not any worse.
Anyways, I do have one big nitpick with Linux and Unix. WTF is up with case sensitive stuff? Can that be turned off if you know what your doing? Sure Windows made case in-sensitive popular, but unlike the drive letter issue(in addition HDA, HDB etc. sounds cooler then C,D,E etc.), I see no advantage in case sensitivity.
voidmain:
There are no drive letters in UNIX/Linux. It is one file tree no matter how many physical drives or partitions you have.
As far as case sensitive being turned off. FAT partitions are case insensitive. Case sensitivity is a good thing. I say WTF when it comes to case insensitivity in Windows. Case sensitivity has many advantages. If you don't get dumbed down on Windows you will have no problem with it.
Kintaro:
Unix, logical
Windows, fucked!
lazygamer:
Well I am a former windoid(a neutraldoid because I never believed it was great, but never wanted to do anything about it, or refuse to use computers because of windows) who just woke up from a drinking binge of epic proportions(windows user lifelong propaganda), and now has a hangover.
So you can say that case senstivity rox, but until someone takes the time out to explain it(unlike the windoids I always listen and think), I cannot understand it. ;)
psyjax:
quote:Originally posted by cloudstrife:
and BTW, did you try win2k? i mean really, did you? because it sucks, but not that much. i would put it on par with, if not better than, os 9.
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Ya, I used to share a AMD 1200 box with my friend. It ran 2k, I admit it was much more stable than 98SE, but aside from crashing, system performance seemed to degrade after extended use, the system was still disorganized, and I didn't like the permissions scheme. Basically, it's everythin that I find wrong with 98, with less crashes.
We reinstalled twice after 2k keeld, for no aparant reason. Crap about some .dll being corrupted.
In any case, who had the trouble with the WD? I have two HD's onb my G4, a WD and a Maxtor. The Maxtor I got third party and configured it as Master, the, but the WD (apple's) was origionaly master. I had no trouble switching it to slave. Are you sure about this? I have installed blank generic drives on Mac's and had them work.
hmmm... wierd.
[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: psyjax: plain 'ol psyjax ]
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