Email from 'Microsoft'

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:27:39 -0500
Rick Sivernell <res005ru at gte.net> wrote:

> 
> Well, I will attempt to bring a freah bit of air here. I have  a
> friend, ok ok no jokes here<g>, and he is using M$sludge XP. Everytime
> he adds something, software or hardware, he has problems. He is so
> scared to touch the machine. DADAFDADADA Linux to the rescue, I make
> be able to get him to get another drive and I will put suse or some
> other distro on this new drive and put it in place of his original. 

Not to belittle your success or your friend's agony, but I had the
opposite experience with WinXP.  The machine my wife and daughter run is
now a WinXP box, and I've had surprisingly good results.  Nothing that I
needed to install (hardware or software) has been problematic with the
exception of a CD writer package (not compatible with XP).  I have a USB
scanner and a USB docking station.  Software installed without a hitch. 

I'd love to get my wife and daughter on linux, too, but when the choice
is learning to love and curse the gimp for photo image manipulation or
to use the simple, well-designed (if limited) M$ software that came with
the devices, it's a no brainer.

I may have no choice if (actually when) the Outlook virus crap
continues.  I lucked out and got the M$ updates in time to squeak by
this time, but the day will come when my wife opens a mail attachment,
and the game is over.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.