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Time to say goodbye to the Linux. It’s been my main OS for a year or two now, sitting happily on my fastest, best-equipped PC. Well, I say ‘happily’ but it’s been grumbling for the last few months. It fell out with the hard drive and the two refused to play together nicely each time it tried to boot up.

Since then, though, my iBook (Barbara) has become my main machine. She lets me pick up my email wherever I am, thanks to her Airport card, and she’s far nicer to type on.

One of the main reasons for zapping the Linux, though, was that my XP machine is decidedly buggy. Plug in a USB device and you have to reboot - a decidedly ungood thing. Its drive is full and fragmented. Basically, it’s a mess. It’s also old and slow, too. No firewire. No USB2.

Trouble is, it’s the machine on which XP is activated, so I’m reluctant to zap it entirely and I can’t be bothered with cleaning it up at the moment, which left me with only one alternative - kill the Linux box and install Windows 2000.

What a faff. It can’t find my network. It took six trial-and-error guesses to get the graphics card and monitor sorted out. It can’t see the sound card. It’s pleading for drivers for the USB2 ports. Sure, it may look nicer than the Mandrake Linux that was on there before, but at least the Linux installed in far less time, did far more thanks to the bundled applications, connected to the network and had me browsing right away, made good use of the sound card and drove my monitor from the off.

Already I want to switch back to Linux. Why it’s not taken off in businesses I really don’t understand.

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