ZDNet: Lurking in the Mud: A Warning for Linux

“As part of taking a quick look at Microsoft’s Vista beta I
spent some time lurking in PC forums discussing it. The quoted bits
below are all from a PC World discussion of the time and effort
involved in downloading the Vista beta, but they’re fairly
representative of the stuff I ran into.

“The opening salvo on Linux is from someone signing as ‘William’
who suggests a better use for the time it takes (typically about a
day) to download and install the Vista beta…”

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