[Tfug] My experience "recovering" Windows compared to installing Debian

[Glen Pfeiffer]

On 07/28/2007 07:45 PM, Sean Warburton wrote:
> just out of curiosity, why remove the (20, you say) software 
> packages? 

Security. Memory. Registry. etc.

> My Windows partition has junk on it I never have used and 
> probably never will, but with the cost of storage these days 

It has NOTHING to do with hard drive space. I gave more details 
in another message.

> And to reboot a computer 5 times (during the update process, 
> correct?) took 7-8 hours?
>
> [snip]
>
> Now I do understand that Windows has numerous limitations, but 
> wow, 10 hours. Even my beta copy of Vista took about 1.5hours 
> from first turning on my compter to the time it first plays 
> that stereotypical welcome sound. 

Okay, you must be right. It didn't really take me 10 hours. I 
must have been tripping. Thanks for playing and have a nice day!

-- 
Glen