Originally Posted by
wahoonc
I get my basic software installed then play with plug ins and such. I am not an IT guy, and I DID NOT stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night
I am much the amateur, but it keeps me out of bars and off of street corners and I make a bit of pocket money cleaning viruses and malware out of people's laptops. My biggest ***** is with MS when you have to do a clean install and it takes damned near 8 hours to download all the "necessary" security updates on a 5.0 DSL line.
That is freaking insane. If MS built cars you would have a Prius that weighed 7,000 # from all the patches added on.
I used Knopix or Debian for several years. I have one Ubuntu 10.1 machine right now that I love.
Aaron
I think it'd be a stretch to call me an "IT guy". I work at a refurbishing shop. I set up my own little subnet (IPCop rocks) and I'm running some Debian-based file servers to house images, handy apps, and temporarily house customer data when I'm repairing their systems (read: reinstalling Windows after a self-inflicted wound).
I am no MS fan. +1 on the "8 hour download" thing. Of course, if you have MS on your own system and a NAS available (or even an external HDD) you can use Acronis to image the drive and speed things up dramatically when Windows dies. Which it will. For Sure. Eventually.
What really amazes me is that people don't seem to realize that MS is a zombie company. It's still going - and will be for some time to come - but it's on borrowed time as we speak.
Have you been reading about the Nexus 7? I might have to revise my earlier post and suggest that the Nexus 7 might be the way to go (w/ a fold up bluetooth keyboard).