I guess not Frank! Although I have nothing against Dan, he actually brings
some good points and valid arguments at times. Alias? Well that's a
different story... All he is trying to do it push a product that nobody
really wants or needs...
and for the record Dan, I knew some of these commands. I just needed to
figure out where the grub config files were and perform some trial and
errors... Most Non-technical people would have trouble with this. I am
somewhat technical and I had problems. I'm happy for you that everything
works right of the box with no problems, not everyone shares that same
theory...
WaterBoy
"Frank" <fb@sr2.cmm> wrote in message news:4bb7dc77$1@news.x-privat.org...
> On 4/3/2010 4:53 PM, DanS wrote:
>> "WaterBoy"<Waterboy@somewhere.com> wrote in
>> news:tb6dnXG9ZuO4wyrWnZ2dnUVZ_oqdnZ2d@giganews.com:
>>
>>> Come on Dan, really? I've been dabbling with Linux since
>>> the slackware days. I used a service called Dorsai back in
>>> the early 90's. It was Unix based and I remember
>>> downloading floppy disks of slackware because I couldn't
>>> stand Windows 3.11, which is why I used OS/2 as well. So
>>> about 20 years of Linux at the desktop level, and still no
>>> push, yeah it's great because it's free, but for the
>>> average user it's a nightmare which is why it will never go
>>> anywhere. For example I Duel boot XP and Ubuntu on my spare
>>> drive, and low and behold Grub was all screwed up, I could
>>> only boot into Ubuntu. This is what I was talking about
>>> when I said to fix problems it's cryptic line after cryptic
>>> line. I had issues with Firefox plugins as well (For
>>> Linux), Alias immediately jumped in there and accused me of
>>> lying yet again. I needed to run this cryptic command lines
>>> to correct the issue:
>>>
>>> sudo mv /boot/grub/device.map /boot/grub/device.map.bak
>>> sudo update-grub
>>
>> Those are far from cryptic. You know exactly what sudo is, the
>> program mv, and two parameters for the program mv.
>>
>> The second, well, if that's cryptic to you......
>>
>> What would have been a more accurate b*tch was that you needed
>> to use the command line. That's also something you need to do
>> with Windows too, when troubleshooting network issues, for
>> instance.
>>
>>
>>> When I rebooted all was working again. This took me all of
>>> 20 mins to figure out, but that time really adds up when
>>> you're trying to load multiple software packages.
>>>
>>> I can post about how I got wine to work as well if you'd
>>> like. That took me about 1/2 hour because some files didn't
>>> exist. I had to search and completely remove what I had,
>>> redownload a new Wine package and re-run the install...
>>
>> Go ahead, post anything you want. I've never suffered any of
>> those problems, and most people don't. Comments are made
>> trying to make any issue what-so-ever seem widespread and a
>> problem for the majority.
>>
>>
>> But I digress....my OP was to disagree with this statement.
>>
>>>>> No Linux Distro will EVER be a threat to Windows.
>>
>> ....at one time you could have also said....
>>
>> 1) MS will never invest in Apple.
>> 2) The Berlin wall will never come down.
>> 3) The USSR will neer be dissolved.
>>
> You really just don't get it do you, dan-o!
> Oops!