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To: JC Jaros who wrote (17669)	7/7/1999 3:42:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 64865

[ although the day that AOL ports their software to x86 Solaris or Linux, is the day that Windows comes off of my average end user mother in-law's Micron PC. There is no end to the anguish that is the "Windows experience" for she and for me on the other end of the phone. ] Dear JC, you and your mother-in-law have my complete sympathy. My husband feels that he should have billed MSFT for the hours, days and weeks that he has had to put in to keep Windows running. Finally, he gave up at work and installed LINUX. He's much happier these days. Best wishes, Mephisto

To: JC Jaros who wrote (17669)	7/7/1999 4:24:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

The beauty of Windows is always in the NEXT (any day now) version. You must be late to the party. The rest of the world is pretty much on to this BS nowadays, as well as the bit about "zero administration desktop" (if it's ever needed) At least the MAC/MSFT desktop is here now and it's friendly enough that a non-techie can take care of it quite easily ... and if it's too much of a problem installing something the local computer store will do it for $30 bucks or free if you buy add-ons from them. Solaris is a big boy OS. It's not made for or marketed to, "average end users", although the day that AOL ports their software to x86 Solaris or Linux, is the day that Windows comes off of my average end user mother in-law's Micron PC. There is no end to the anguish that is the "Windows experience" for she and for me on the other end of the phone. I'll save myself a lot of time in the long run just being the *nix root on her PC. Plus it'll keep things from getting inadvertently screwed up locally. Why don't you just install Linux for her then ? Just a warning though since you'll probably get a lot more phone calls ... but I guess you'll enjoy telnet'ing over and hacking around ? Cheers James