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What's wrong with the terminal?

Posted 10-04-2009 at 10:59 AM by dragonslayer48dx
[RANT] I get a little tired sometimes of hearing people complain about using the terminal, so here's my story:

A couple years ago, the Automatic Updater on my daughter's XP machine stopped working. Attempting to update manually only gave an error number, so, I contacted Microsoft, and guess what? I had to open the Run dialog box, and type a lengthy string of commands and parameters to fix the problem! Imagine that! So for all of you who think Windows is 'CLI-free', guess again! [/RANT]...
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I Finally Did It

Posted 04-05-2009 at 09:25 PM by dragonslayer48dx
I took the "big plunge".

Might not seem like much to a lot of you, but with the help of another LQ member, I found the tutorial on GParted and successfully installed Puppy to my HDD on the first try. I must say it was much easier than I expected... Hell, I actually had fun! And the best part is that now I have a system that blazes compared to (K)Ubuntu, and takes up much less drive space.

I just might get the gist of Linux, after all!

Cheers,...
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