[Discuss] Essentially all free apps will soon be available on Windows

[Peter Scott]

At 12:26 PM 2/16/2007, you wrote:
>I would agree that it is better in SOME ways, however when things go 
>wrong with XP they REALLY go wrong and the problems are no where as 
>easy to fix as with LINUX.   Just as an example, if the system gets 
>"blown" and has to be reloaded, it is MUCH more difficult and time 
>consuming to get back to a working OS with all the fixes (unless you 
>have done all the work of creating a bootable CD with SP2 AND all of 
>the updates since then -- not a trivial task at all).

Unless you use some kind of ghosting mechanism.  I snapshot my 
partitions to a mirror drive every few days with Partition Magic, takes 
about 30 seconds of my time.  If something goes wrong, even if I lose 
my primary drive, I can be back at that last snapshot within 10 
minutes.  Has saved my bacon on many occasions.  There are products 
that allege to automate this but I'm content with what I've got and I 
know it works.

I got plenty of objections to Windows, but that isn't one of them.

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Peter Scott
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