No, I mean "Newbie needs help learning Linux"-type threads.

And even then, the best thing for the OP to do is Google how to browse the Web on, listen to music on, chat on, install additional software to, etc. their Linux systems.

I find it funny that you know what is the best for other persons without actually knowing them, you must be a mind reader or something. If the OP states clearly that he wants to use Windows, and not Linux, how can it be the best if he learns Linux? What does it make better for him to know Linux, if he doesn't even want to use it? To dictate people what they have to use and not tolerating that they do not want it, that sounds like a totalitarian or fascist mind. If he wants to use Windows then it is his free decision. If he needs help to get rid of Linux, I will help him, if I can. To say "I will not help you, just learn to use Linux!" is in no way helpful. What image will he have from the "helpful" Linux-community with such answers to his problems?

To gargsaurabh31,
Please do not feel ofended wheni say"you could have found a lot of help in Google search"! In fact Microsoft has an entire article dedicated to the prob. you are facing!http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314458. To shield myself from further critisism, this MS article was last updated on July2, 2010.

I will not castigate you for asking the question here, but this site is for helping folks to "enter &learn the basics of Linux", (but not leave Linux), as i have been advised to (and which i will) according to one of the critical posts in this thread!

I will leave this thread with how to augment and refine "search" in search engines like Google,Bing,etc by using Boolean operators, Boolean properties, and wildcards. Wishing you all the best.
regards,
vyver.

Those aren't even "problems" but simply blatant, stubborn, closed-minded questions that don't deserve to be asked here. That's exactly what the OP is: He's demonstrating in this thread that 'because I don't know how to use Linux I want Windows on my computer". This means he/she is closed-minded about Linux and has no idea just what good things Linux has for him/her.

Just because it may be a "question" does not mean it is a real "problem". It sometimes just means the OP is too closed-minded about Linux and doesn't deserve to ask the question here.

Here's my advice: Use a Microsoft TechNet or MSDN forum if you want to install Windows, not a Linux forum. You'd get more help there.

Kenny_Strawn:
It doesn't sound like he is asking so much about installing Windows as he is about uninstalling Linux. Seems within the realm of this forum, to me. Someone has already posted a solution to that problem.
You may object to his wanting to use Windows, but there are still many valid reasons why people do use Windows. I'm as strong an advocate for Linux as there is, but there are times when I still need/want to use Windows. It isn't a sin.

--- rod.

I kind of agree with Kenny, the OP didn't even want to give Linux a slight chance, he just stubbornly decided immediately that if it's not Windows, he doesn't want it.

If he did some research on Linux or played around with it (while realizing that it's different than Windows and he'll have to relearn a few things) and decided he didn't want it, then fine. But AFAIK he didn't.

Thank you!

Finally an experienced LQ member agrees with me. This is exactly what I was trying to say. Reputation added.

Let him dump his money down bill gates pockets if he wants (when he learns how little he's getting he may have second thoughts)!!! Personally my wife and I dropped windoze and M$ (spelled MORE MONEY NOW!!!)just to be able to lose all the downtime with defragging,security scanning,so on and so forth...can we say FREEDOM? I can't believe how much we can accomplish on a computer in a day now!I can't believe what we get done in an hour now we used to have to squeeze into a whole day HAHAHA!!!!!

Agreed. However, you *don't* have to pay too much to drop Windoze and M$. Linux is always *free* to install (unless you're talking about a distro like RHEL, SLES, or Xandros) and also has many of the same security, lack of need of maintenance, etc. as Mac OS X.

Simply put, with Linux you can get the best of both worlds: the security and stability of a Mac with the price of a PC. In fact, even cheaper, since you don't have to pay for the OS.

I cannot agree more. The "More money now" was in regards to microslop .They seem to want you to pay for everything Linux gives us for free.:P My wife is very happy with Mint Isadora and I love Mint Julia RC.

Moved: This thread is more suitable in <GENERAL> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

That's the way I felt when I dropped window$ for good. FREEDOM !!!

I salute you and your wife for cutting the ball and chain of micro$oft bondage.

Saurabh Garg
Get PartedMagic, burn it to a CD, boot up from it, open the partition manager, and delete your unwanted linux partitions.

http://partedmagic.com/

Then you can install whatever you want.

Of course they do, Microsoft is a profit-oriented company, not the salvation army.
But no one is actually constraining you to buy there products. You can use what you want to use, learn what you want to learn and refuse to learn what you don't want to learn, that is the meaning of freedom of choice.
If you decide to use Windows than it is not my problem. I simply don't care if you use it, and I don't care if you decide to use it, because you do not want to learn Linux.
But I don't see the point in refusing to give an answer to someone because he doesn't want to use or learn Linux. I also don't see the point in talking of freedom and than not tolerating if someone decides different than you would decide.

The OP asks a question, gets an answer that will help, then the thread is hijacked into a MS bash fest. Lastly, its "moved" to General to get the exposure it deserves. This thread deserves to die.

And, to add insult to injury, the OP's post count is now zero because he was moved out of the technical forum where he asked a legitimate question. How is this fair to the OP?