I just read this article and let me say this up front :

IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME!

I constantly read how Windows users try Linux and how it's "so hard" for them and how they try these stupid things they should know don't work in the first place had they read any manuals at all.

Well, Windows kids, the tables have turned finally. I love this article, and I think it points things out exactly how the Windows kids who don't like Linux but want to try it to be fair (In other words they have already made their opinion that they don't like it)...

Here is an example from the article:

After finally managing to join the computer to the domain, I tried logging on using my very underused domain user account. Windows seemed to authenticate successfully, but then just sat there at the login screen saying 'Applying your personal settings'. I walked away, heated up a small mushroom pizza, and ate it. I came back, perhaps 15 minutes later. It was still sitting there at the login screen, 'loading my settings'.

I wanted to know what was happening, so out of habit I hit Ctrl+Alt+F1. Of course, this was a no go. It seems that virtual consoles aren't enabled in Windows by default. In fact, subsequent Google searches seemed to suggest that Windows doesn't come with this functionality at all! Your GUI is all you get. Perhaps new and inexperienced users would not need this functionality, or even notice it was missing, but I'm sure Linux 'power users', attempting to switch to Windows, will miss it.

Without being able to use a virtual console to kill the login process, I had no option but to do a hard-reset of the machine, and try logging in again. This time it popped up an error message saying it couldn't make a copy of my roaming profile, and it was going to give me a temporary default one instead. Why could it not load my regular profile? No reason was given. I logged out once more, logged back in again, and behold, this time it copied over my profile with no complaints. Or did it?
The bold part I LOVED. He made himself sound exactly like the people who hate Linux for no other reason but they don't know what they are doing. How many times I've heard "Well clicking start didn't work so I deleted Linux".... That was a nice retribution.


Read the article here:

http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/html/47/5937.html

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