What is wrong with WinME?

BobAT286 wrote:
> Pogle;
>
> Regarding "backups" -- can you recommend a (free) backup program
> that will run under ME? Can i use msbackup from Win98(NOT)SE? If
> so, anybody know which CAB file it's in on the 98 CD?
> --- Thanks!
> Bob - who still misses DOS
>


If you want a copy of DriveImage that runs from DOS, email me.

P.

Hi Shane, with reference to your comments (and miles OT), re the Linux
family, I had previously never really felt the need to dabble until both you
and (I think) Alias 'publicised' Ubunto (in particular) some time last year
which resulted in my bad experience. However, I have since taken the
occasional look at some of the various Linux sites - but not in any great
depth.

I did also try OpenOffice (for Windows) and found it reasonably close to MS
Office to be of very good value for money. However (and there's nearly
always a however in my posts) the major thing that puts me off Linux is the
vast number of sub-families (Linux, Red Hat, Ubunto, SUSE, SLED, ad
infinitum, not to mention a whole menagerie of species) and their subsequent
issue numbers.

Now I can just about get my head around the concept of the MS DOS, 3.xx,
Win9x series and then XP and now Vista but just can't see in which direction
Linux is going - or more particularly, which family/version/issue is the
best for me. Even Wikipedia leaves me bemused. And, why so many 'new
releases'? Are these the equivalent of MS WU's or SP's?

> ... have lists of bugs in the 'latest release' that
> run into thousands).

Hmm .. I suppose that might explain it then. Not a very good selling point.

These days, I just want an operating system that works (for me and my
computing friends) - and currently MS fulfil that requirement - I don't want
to have to re-learn a whole new method of running a word processor or
checking my bank account, or have to re-write reports in a different format
because nobody else's OS can read them. I'm used to the Windows way, it
works for me (without too much discomfort) though why Works and Office don't
talk to each other is beyond my ken. To have to start worrying whether I
should have installed Samba or Zimbrain, or version 8.04 LTS or version
3.079. I don't think I'm a Luddite.but it just seems too much for my brain
to handle. My head hurts! Never did do the acid test and probably far to old
and sensible by now but then I don't remember too much of the 60's either.
I'm off to lie down in a darkened room.

Mart



"Pogle S. Wood" <wood.pogle.TakeThisOut@googlemail.com> wrote in message
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> Mart wrote:
>> Regarding mulibooting, I've never ventured in that direction (except
>> for a bad experience with Ubuntu) - although I did once try (not too
>> successfully) to run VM on XP Home. (Its incompatible!). Nor do I
>> have SATA/RAID, so can't really comment on those aspects.
>
> I don't recall how widely I publicised this before but over the years I've
> been periodically trialing Linux distros, culminating in last summer when
> I
> ran something like 8 simultaneously. I have concluded that the only one
> that
> seriously challenges Windows is SUSE/openSUSE. Yet it too had too many
> errors or too serious a bug and I deleted 10.3. This May's openSUSE 11.0
> was
> a great improvement - but it is still hampered by the boot
> management/partition management that they all are. I just deleted it last
> weekend. Because I'm sick of it insisting a Primary partition is an
> Extended, Logical partition - and changing it to such if you don't stop
> it -
> and proposing - entirely unnecessarily - to resize an actual Logical
> partition that whether FAT32 or NTFS, is in use and I have already set up
> where and how large I want and do not want resized! And if you allow it to
> auto-install, it *will* resize that partition without consulting you.
> Because like a true Linux type it knows best and cannot even comprehend
> that, well, just *maybe* it does not?
>
> Even this, the best of the distros is a pita to install - or to restore
> from
> a backup - to a multiboot system to co-exist with Windows. Microsoft
> systems
> are good at this; Linux is awful at it - yet the vast army of Linux
> apologists think Windows is the problem.
>
> Anyway - if you want to try Linux again, try openSUSE. Possibly it is
> better
> for being produced these days by Novell, who as we know have been in the
> business a long time and not as amateurs. They are derided for the deal
> made
> with MS - possibly rightly so. But the problem with the Linux apologists
> is
> what matters to them is drowning out criticism.
>
> Debian and it's derivatives (notably *buntu) are the worse at installing
> on
> a multiboot system. Fedora and Mandriva are lots better, but Mandriva
> still
> has too many bugs though certainly no more than *buntu (all the distros
> have
> lists of bugs in the 'latest release' that run into thousands).
>
> *buntu and Fedora limit far too much what you can do; Fedora because it is
> derived from a server system (Red Hat) and *buntu because it is aimed at
> the
> inexpert user, so they are no good for a 'power user' - in the same way
> that
> XP Pro is more suited than XP Home.
>
>>
>>> btw Mart, I feel this is a legitimate offshoot of the original
>>> thread,
>>
>> Perhaps Shane, perhaps not. My view was even with the first of only
>> three posts by the OP in this thread, LM had come in 'rant' rather
>> than 'reason' mode. And judging by the amount of flack he's left
>> behind him, I was probably right. (Seems he's doing similar things in
>> the Win98 groups)
>
> Oh, really.
>
> Well, I do feel such ill-informed diatribes need to be corrected for the
> sake of others who have heard something like it and would possibly take it
> as the reinforcement that finally tips their scales.
>
>> I guess your final paragraph sums it all up. Even your expression
>> 'Common Sense' was applied in a not too dissimilar context elsewhere.
>
> I'm well used to the notion of 'Common Sense' being more of an effort
> to defend long-held misconceptions than to arrive at any sort of truth. It
> is something of a hobbyhorse. Probably began when reading Quantum Physics
> and dropping acid.
>
> P.
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