[dundee] Linux mint 4

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My laptop came with vista pre installed. Its an awful piece of software!
anyone who has spoken to me in the last 2 months has heard nothing but
complaints about it!

My laptop came with the (then) reccomended 1GB, vista uses 750MB standing
still. Its very sloooow! I could complain forever about the way it is set up
by default to handle files, and nothing works! To be fair, i havent bothered
looking into fixing problems as i have zero interest in vista but from day
one microsoft word cant find files, file indexing is wonky and driver
support is still pretty bad.

I wont rant more.. i should be doing coursework and ive found myself in that
loop

1 - read/answer emails
2 - stumble through a few pages on the internet
3 - contemplate starting coursework, but first... (see #1)

-jen

On Nov 21, 2007 10:46 PM, gordon dunlop <astrozubenel at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I always use custom or manual partitioning so that I always know where
> I am putting things, but in your case where the Ubiquity installer is
> only a six or seven step installer and takes away a lot of user
> control the installer has to get it exactly right (like Xandros) with
> no bugs as it is dealing with people's systems. It does not matter if
> the operating system itself is a bit buggy as you always do work
> arounds, but the installer has got to be the best as it can.
> Installers is a bit of a bug bear of mine (pardon the pun), I don't
> mind complex or textual installers as long as it does what it is
> supposed to do. The main thing that puts off any potential user to an
> operating system is if the installer doesn't work, they will try
> another distro after the first or second failure. I don't know
> anything about Vista, but after reading what some users think of it,
> there might not be a great loss to you.
>
> Gordon
>
> On Nov 21, 2007 5:27 PM, David Thornton Snr
> <davidthorntonsnr at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > I'm running LM4 on both pc's 0ne 'which' had vista on it, the other
> clean
> > install.
> > C drive has 2 partitions, when installing it on the vista PC  it used
> the
> > free space on the vista (C) partition.
> > Did not give me the choice to use the 'D' drive, when i tried to use
> Gparted
> > i F@%$ed up my vista so reformed drive and just have LM4 on it.
> >
> > Dave
> >
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