I bought this CAD laptop at CompUSA as it was going out of business and
asking an incredible $600 (approx.) for such a dual-core laptop w/17"+
display, 256MB Video nVidia GeForceMobile which might be laughing today, but
2 years ago was still one of the better laptops graphics-wise.
It's an HP "dv" series, I love HP since beloved IBM Thinkpads were sold out
to Lenovo terminating my almost a decade-old affair with Thinkpads., no
moreThinkpads; now it's HP.Now it's HP.
Anyways, disk space was small even by that year standard - 80GB of which
15GB was eaten by Recovery partition.
I promptly wiped off all bloatware, recovery partition & repartitioned
installing both SUSE + UboonToo.
It's a long story, but I finally got so fed up with Linux and fretting my
life away on such NONSENSE, I did this - all Linux garbage was cleaned out.
Instead I now keep documents there, some primary but some backups of
primaries (critical docs I like to copy to 2 locations, besides external
backups).
This little 20GB partition is like a gift.
Now I wonder what made me waste time & diskspace on Linux.
I love this D:\ partition which is free of clutter & %SYSTEM FOLDER so you
cannot mess up system files....
It's because of people like Alias that I was tempted & corrupted to try
Linux, I've been running it for no less than a YEAR & a half, out of this
time the only useful thing I did with it is to fill my head with
nonproductive stuff, get aa boatload of updates & patches, and get online
several times only to be kicked out because sites I was visiting didin't
like Firefox.
This stuff is fo rteenagers or third-world countries. This is not business.
It remind sme of tinkering with a closets full of bvits & bytes, metal scrap
circuit boards, chips, tarnsistors, etc when I was a teenager in another
country (not USA).
I've decided Linux is not for me if I want to accomplish WORK/business and
if I want to waste time, it's better to go outdoors, travel & play ball than
sit for 2 hours fighting with stupid hobbyist Oop[erating System.
Yeah Windows can be childish and not meant for engineering folks, HOWEVER
this is important:
I'D RATHER SPEND TIME TWEAKING WINDOWS & IT ALWAYS WORKS TO MY PLEASURE,
THAN SPEND FOREVER ON LINUX WHICH NEVER WORKS TO INTERFACE WITH REST OF THE
WORLD WHICH OPERATES ON WINDOWS.
The idea behind Linux is not to help "people", but to hurt "big coproations"
while gaining some twisted sort of glory for people under 30. Once you grow
up you understand Linux is like a cheap bike comparing to WIndows which migh
tbe heavy & not techie-oriented but which can be adjusted, I did incredible
things with Vista which in the enbd made it mimick WinXP.
No difference in speed, as fast as XP, colors, appearances, menus,
behaviors, Ethernet ACK comrpession/networking, email, anything... I made it
XP-like.
And I will do that with WIndows7
And no Alias will convince me to give Linux another shot, I already did...
if I knew wouldn't even bother wasting disk spac eon Linux & dual boot.
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