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There Is Only One Reason Left Why Windows Exists

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 15, 2007

[ Thanks to Mark Rais for this
link. ]

“156 minutes of pain compared with 26 minutes of success. That’s
the difference between a Windows installation and a Linux
installation. After two and a half hours fiddling with a Windows
install on my Toshiba laptop, it became pretty obvious what is one
major reason why Windows remains a viable operating system.

“Let me start by sharing a simple premise. I wanted a dual boot
laptop, with Windows and Linux. Since Windows has an ‘attitude
problem’ it has to be on the primary partition and master drive to
work correctly. No problem. I decided to simply start with a
reinstall of Windows…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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