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Forum: General 01-30-2011, 05:55 PM
Replies: 3,733
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Posted By Barney Rubble
LOL... A little older yet, Kenny. 1999. Came with...

LOL... A little older yet, Kenny. 1999. Came with Win98 installed. Installed XP in '05. Win98 couldn't hold a candle to XP on it. I did mention ,however, that I upgraded to a newer PC last Nov....
Forum: General 01-30-2011, 05:23 PM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,158
Posted By Barney Rubble
Fact is, I did try a few others- CentOS, Fedora,...

Fact is, I did try a few others- CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuSE, Puppy, Mint... I just didn't bother to mention them because I couldn't even get them to finish installing.
Forum: General 01-30-2011, 04:10 PM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,158
Posted By Barney Rubble
UPDATE- Trying Again

First, my main distro was/is Ubuntu. Just a quick rundown, here...

Started in Sept '06 with 6.06/WinXP which worked flawlessly with Gnome and KDE. Upgraded to 8.04 in Oct '08... no Grub menu, and...
Forum: General 01-30-2011, 01:14 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,158
Posted By Barney Rubble
That's just it... it was a clean install. I tried...

That's just it... it was a clean install. I tried "upgrading" once, and unlike Windows, it didn't work. The system wouldn't even boot!



Hmmm... Never really read the EULA, but I've upgraded my...
Forum: General 01-29-2011, 11:58 PM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,158
Posted By Barney Rubble
You're doing it now. And like I said, look around...

You're doing it now. And like I said, look around your own forums. It's all over the place.



Not at all. One more time, look around your own forums. BTW, this IS a Windows vs Linux thread,...
Forum: General 01-29-2011, 11:21 PM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,158
Posted By Barney Rubble
Let me explain myself a bit. I started with Linux...

Let me explain myself a bit. I started with Linux in '06. It worked perfectly. I loved it. The only reason I kept Windows was for the games I have. But with each new Linux upgrade, it got worse....
Forum: General 01-26-2011, 07:21 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,158
Posted By Barney Rubble
Funny, too, how you always attack the...

Funny, too, how you always attack the intelligence of Windows users. I consider myself the more intelligent one for using something that works. It compares to a shade-tree mechanic that has to work...
Forum: General 01-26-2011, 02:00 AM
Replies: 3,733
Views: 407,158
Posted By Barney Rubble
You're Kidding, Right?

Hahaha... I guess that's one way to boost your ego. lol

I've "done my time" with 12 years of manual configuration, troubleshooting and tweaking with MS-DOS and early versions of Windows before...
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