[Gllug] Whinge

[Roberto D'Amico]

> Dean Damerell wrote:
> Last night I changed the motherboard, CPU and memory in my 
> fastest machine from a slot Althon 750 to a VIA K7V266, 
> Thunderbird 1400, 256Mb PC2100 memory. I'm not just telling 
> you this to make you dribble (although I _can_ compile a 
> kernel, modules and all, in 130 seconds), but to tell a tale of woe.
> 
> I have two OSes installed on this machine. One of them, our 
> friends in Redmond tell us, is difficult to use. For experts 
> only. Not well supported. Doesn't support the latest 
> hardware. Indeed, this OS was not without problems; I had to 
> boot from a rescue disc, remove the bogus 'mem=384M' from 
> /etc/lilo.conf, rerun lilo. Total elapsed time, 5 minutes.
> 
> The other OS is the consumer OS that everyone uses because 
> it's easy to use; furthermore, I live with someone who is 
> often reduced to professional admin of OSes from this family. 
> 4 hours of epic struggle and innumerable reboots later, most 
> of the problems are solved, but it still won't use any 
> graphics driver except the oldest available.
> 
> I know you all know this, but I just wanted to complain. 
> Really. How did they conquer the world with this shit?

While we weren't looking :(

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