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- diidiiidiid, on 12/11/2007, -23/+959If this ever gets to the front page the title will be a lie
- Philluminati, on 12/11/2007, -19/+871"Windows XP and Linux can coexist on the same computer. For additional information, refer to your Linux documentation."
-- Cheeky bastards - bightchee, on 12/11/2007, -13/+569So that's how my grandma keeps putting XP back on her computer.
- yujie, on 12/11/2007, -12/+333Wheres the "How to Remove Vista and install Windows XP" page?
- Blafhert, on 12/11/2007, -14/+305Are you also still surprised when Microsoft even uses the word Linux?
- whataboutdave, on 12/11/2007, -17/+216I viewed the page, but I have no intention of ever using it.
- theendlessnow, on 12/11/2007, -9/+205Microsoft now reports that millions of people have been seeking out information on how to remove Linux. Full page ad to run in the WSJ.
- sporktek, on 12/11/2007, -3/+140Hmm, it's not a prompt at which commands are to be typed?
- decaprime, on 12/11/2007, -8/+132Its not a stupid assumption, the article is titled "How to Remove Linux and Install Windows XP", its safe to assume that's why you would be reading it. They acknowledge that "Windows XP and Linux can coexist on the same computer" though.
- inactive, on 12/11/2007, -19/+127Nothing screams stupidity like these "community" circle jerk sessions. LOL and all that.
- SteelFrog, on 12/11/2007, -7/+89Guess I'm stupid. I tried Ubuntu for a few weeks; couldn't get my Wireless card to connect to my WPA network. Tried the Ubuntu forums - no help. Couldn't play games, couldn't use my tradeskill apps (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc). I removed Linux and re-installed Windows. Oh look, working Wifi with Team Fotress 2, Photoshop and all the other things I like!
// I like Ubuntu, don't get me wrong, but it's not for everyone. Calling someone stupid because they've decided it's not for them is just pointless and just further re-enforces the negative stereotype that Linux users are arrogant and pompous. - DrMonkeyLove, on 12/11/2007, -4/+81Just lock her in the closet like everyone else does with their grandmas.
- majortom1981, on 12/11/2007, -32/+99Its because people like you that i have removed linux. All of the linux users think they are gods and bash a person that asks for help. Plus the fact that even installing nvidia drivers for linux requires using the linux command line I stopped even trying to use linux. I can see why people would use this.
- F4u5t, on 12/11/2007, -4/+71If you need a guide, linux probably isn't the best pick for you anyway.
- lexbaby, on 12/11/2007, -5/+71Do you think MS cares? Next week there will be a press release from MS that people are switching from Linux to XP because this page had so many page views all of a sudden.
- consoneo, on 12/11/2007, -6/+69Yeah, because that's TOTALLY not what it is. You can't type commands into that line where it waits for commands.
- nutsackninja, on 12/11/2007, -54/+115For me it would be a very useful page, after spending 15 hours trying to get my video card on my laptop to work, the only solution that the Linux community could come up with is to upgrade the video card from ATI to NVIDIA. I never seen a more buggier GUI then when I was running Linux, double click an icon... Boom nothing happens. Press a button to setup my wireless network Boom nothing happens and the whole GUI locks.
I don't have time to spend hours upon hours bashing 100's of commands to get something simple like a video card or a wireless card to work.
Windows XP was much more stable and guess what IT JUST WORKED!
Digg me down all you want just proves my point that your all elitist snobs. - xm1014, on 12/11/2007, -7/+67It will be the most VIEWED page for a little while now...:)
- STARTSOMETHING, on 12/11/2007, -0/+60We know what he meant. It was like coke bashing pepsi for calling their drink cola.
- fluxion, on 12/11/2007, -2/+61yup, "How to Remove Linux and Install Windows ME" is the actual least used page
- ingoldsby, on 12/11/2007, -7/+64Now that this has hit the front page of Digg, Bill will be getting a call shortly "EVERYONE IS REMOVING LINUX!!!! WE'VE DONE IT!"
- gnick, on 12/11/2007, -4/+61Am I the only one chuckling over the pun? Linux users "bash" people.
- jugglingjon, on 12/11/2007, -6/+53i understand what you're saying, but in all honesty microsoft couldn't keep adding pages of documentation for every linux distribution that rolls out. that really does seem like the distribution's responsibility. now if they just linked to the websites of those distributions, which no doubt have that information; that seems more reasonable.
- sporktek, on 12/11/2007, -13/+57Title was a lie before it made the front page.
- HonoredMule, on 12/11/2007, -12/+52"NOTE: Windows XP and Linux can coexist on the same computer. For additional information, refer to your Linux documentation."
I was just about to post that myself. You say it's cheeky, but I love how it screams "If you want both, you'll have to look to linux for instructions, because it supports itself and us, while we just steamroll your computer." - matrixbandit, on 12/11/2007, -4/+42Get your grandma a router with a website blacklist, block microsoft.com and password protect the router config. Of course, she's a grandmother.. so chances are good that she already printed out the guide the first time so she could read it. (old people hate reading monitors). Case in point, my step dad keeps his desktop resolution set to 800x600. Whenever I come over to fix the latest problem he's created, I always leave it set to the highest res and he can never figure out how to set it back. Yea, it's pretty much my only passive aggressive outlet, but in my defense he is a big worthless unemployed douche bag who should really be spending his time finding and keeping a job rather than sitting around all day infecting his computer with viruses from porn sites. Just sayin'.
/pointless rant - chewbacca77, on 12/11/2007, -6/+43Its probably the MOST used page on Microsoft.com
- hyperair, on 12/11/2007, -10/+46Please don't generalize. Why don't you poke your head around ubuntuforums and count just how many bash a person who asks for help? Those that do have been bashed by others, and/or banned. If they still exist, they can be counted on one hand.
- Jawshie, on 12/11/2007, -13/+48They should make the Windows Bootloader a little more friendly with Linux. I'm not going to install more than 1 Windows on my machine, I have a terrible experience with just one.
- Nerfdude, on 12/11/2007, -5/+38why should it be microsoft's problem? the second microsoft puts up instructions on how to dual boot linux/windows and it doesn't work for ONE person, i'll be reading about it on here in the top ten.
- ilves7, on 12/11/2007, -3/+35wow family anger issues. see a therapist, it'll help in the long run.
- exomni, on 12/11/2007, -11/+43More views does not imply more uses.
- MV559er, on 12/11/2007, -8/+40After reading the title, I assumed this would be Microsoft Bob-related. But this is even more amusing.
- borchard76, on 12/11/2007, -2/+34I heard (in 2001) that microsoft had something like over 200,000 pages on their publicly accessible website that had never been viewed by a human. This was said at a web-development conference hosted in Seattle by a group called Thunder LIzard (which is oddly defunct now, I do believe) for a bunch of mid-level designers. I didn't pay anything for it, so that was good. The point, however, was that a lot of web pages are never viewed by anyone, and only exist because their design spec says they should.
Disclaimer: I have no way to validate this information, even if I cared to. Also, I have no idea how they classified versions of dynamically generated pages.
Oh well. - pr3sidentspence, on 12/11/2007, -11/+42Everyone who has tried linux and gone back to Windows please reply.
- AROZ, on 12/11/2007, -4/+33Yeah, I thought their strategy was to deny or simply avoid the existence of Linux.
- ukfoole, on 12/11/2007, -6/+34"Linux users, how I spite thee so" - A poem by a UK Foole.
Why, when I ask for help,
whether it be to find
why my firewall is blocking
or what process is forking,
do you always respond:
"GTFO noob, go back to m!cro$haft"? - justaskyourmom, on 12/11/2007, -6/+34I saw your mom before, she showed me her linux partition.
- arcade, on 12/11/2007, -2/+28I wonder when I'm going to get over my now 10 years linux phase, and counting.
Oh, except for my small BSD & Solaris phases in between. :P - Cyber_Akuma, on 12/11/2007, -3/+28Why would a company support a product they do not make? Especially if theres hundreds of distros of various versions out there and they would be held accountable if they got something wrong on that page?
It's like expecting a PSU's manual to have the pinout for every motherboard ever made with a non-standard power port. - bills534, on 12/11/2007, -6/+30Its not like its a link to a delicious cake.
- smergs, on 12/11/2007, -1/+25Why do they need a help page on that? All you have to do is put your XP CD in and it will give you the options to delete the partitions and create a new one for Windows. I actually just installed XP on an old laptop that I had been running Ubuntu on last night. My wife made me get rid of Ubuntu because Open Office wasn't playing nicely. (She's a teacher) She was trying her best to use it but just found a ton of problems. I tried to use Wine and install MS office but I guess because the laptop is so old and slow that Wine just didn't have the resources it needed to run Office. Oh well.
- Wargalas, on 12/11/2007, -0/+23Linux generally doesn't lock up, so with both flavors giving you issues, I wonder if you have a hardware problem that Windows is ignoring or a piece of hardware that Linux doesn't like. Try Knoppix and see if the live CD gives you the same lockup issue. If so, I'd remove some peripherals until it works.
Just a thought, I might be wrong. - sporktek, on 12/11/2007, -13/+35Buried for innacurate title. I have personally sent a customer to this page after he mistakenly formatted his drive when he got his Ubuntu live CD accidentaly swapped with a Trixbox install disc.
- Nerfdude, on 12/11/2007, -10/+31HAY, did yuo here that microsoft SUX?!!! UBUNTU FTMFW LOL
k im gonna go play halo 3 now - Cyber_Akuma, on 12/11/2007, -1/+21What if you get a rival that is named Brand X?
- andycr512, on 12/11/2007, -2/+21For your reading pleasure:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obsc ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_by_design - FKnight, on 12/11/2007, -4/+22More "People who don't use Linux are stupid" crap.
Good luck selling people on Linux, *****. - ZPWeeks, on 12/11/2007, -8/+26Your problem is a hardware support one, and that's something that the Linux community is more than aware of - yes, Windows has better hardware support, but that isn't because Windows is a better OS from a technical standard, but because it is a more popular OS that vendors simply have to write drivers for.
Your problems do not reflect those of many Linux users. The GUI is not broken or buggy, it has problems with your hardware.
Many, many people are working on making Linux "just work" because that is what it will take for it to have real success on the personal desktop/laptop. It isn't there, but over the past few years, it's gotten better by leaps and bounds. My system is very generic (Intel chipset and graphics) but it runs Linux great.
I would suggest interpreting your experience as "Linux isn't 'there yet', especially for your hardware", not "Linux is a technically inferior OS because it doesn't work on my computer."
(Oh, by the way, I don't use Linux right now either. I spend 90% of my time in Windows Vista.) - klaarn, on 12/11/2007, -3/+21no it doesn't... :)
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