Re: Well, Windows is back on the disk.

Sasha Tsykin wrote:

.....linux aims to be easy to use for EVERYBODY.

I don't mean to sound rude, but since when?
Ubuntu may aim to be "Linux for Human Beings" (they've got a quite a way to go before they can live up to their slogan), but you just said "Linux". as in "Linux as a whole" and not Ubuntu specifically. If in fact you meant Linux as a whole, then I strongly disagree with your statement.

There are *hundreds* of Linux distributions and I venture to guess that only a handful of them "aim to be easy". Most of them were created by geeks, for geeks.

So hopefully not too many people will be putting windows back on the hard disk because they find Ubuntu to be nice and simple.

What if they want Ubuntu (and/or any other Linux distro), FreeBSD, OpenSolaris *and* Windows on their computer, "just because"? :-)

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