> Good point. That also has been my experience. Still,
> even from 
> scratch Windows install is not nearly as much like
> dental work 
> as any Linux distro I've ever seen. Don't get me
> wrong, I'm no MS
> fan. But I have a healthy respect for large weapons.

  My experience's have been just the opposite.  I run
Slack on all my system, and rarely have a problem
getting anything configured.  I tried to play around
with Win 2000 once.  They did not have support for the
netgear FA311 Nic.  Usually no problem, download the
driver install it, yeah right this is windows we are
talking about.  I went to install it, got the blue
screen, restarted the computer and got a message that
I have to, again, restart the computer, this time in
safe mode, remove what I was doing, then restart
again.  This happened twice in a row.  Well that
computer now has linux on it, with absolute no problem
with installs or configurations.  I have 11 computers
in this house.  One has windows on it, because that is
the only computer in this house that I could get
windows to run correctly on.  The others are either
Slack or Solaris 9, with the only configuration issue
of getting Solaris to work with my Nic.  So when you
refer to an O/S that is like pulling teeth to install,
I take that as a reference to windows, not linux.



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