Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together [LWN.net]

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted Jul 31, 2004 13:36 UTC (Sat) by ziffull (guest, #23602)
Parent article: Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

The root cause of this problem is it got by testing and thats not cool in my book. Linux sucks, and i will never use it again due to this horrendouse nightmare. I see nobody taking responsability for this screw up and that to me is the sign of a sinking screwed up product. I am also offended at the amount of time it took to get the solution out, the lack of ownership and the blatent pass the buck attitude of your developers who screwed this up in the first place. "Your not responsible for losing data" LOL (I Know - the hard drive just did it all by itself you freaking morons.) Did we just assume the changes made in the kernel would just boot like normal for dual boot without testing it. You know what they say when you ASSUME. This was unacceptable in my book and you can kiss my long time linux user ass goodbye.

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Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted Oct 23, 2004 7:51 UTC (Sat) by Bender (guest, #25588) [Link]

Meh. Poor little wanker's crying because he didn't know what he was doing
and screwed up his install? Cry me a river, buddy. The problem's yours.
You own it. Don't go blaming the developers. You should've read up on
the risks before installing, so you knew what you were getting into. You
didn't, now you're off sucking your thumb. Get a grip.

Clearly, this is a case of PEBCAK. You're beneath my contempt.

Dual booting WinXP and Fedora Core 2 with no problems for the past three
months. Dual-booting various versions of Windows with various Linux
distros for 5 years, again with no problems.

Making Fedora Core 2 and Windows play well together

Posted Jan 2, 2005 4:50 UTC (Sun) by papertape (guest, #26969) [Link]

I think ziffull's ire is understandable.

My first reaction was "How could Suse have been so stupid as to let this out?" Then, "How could the Linux people have been so stupid?" and "How could the GNU people...?" Now I'm wondering how this got by so many people. Didn't anyone, anywhere, blow the whistle?

After 43 years of fooling with computers and the software they run, I have plenty of sympathy for the people who commit their lives to getting them to work, but I have yet to see an exception to the rule "You get what you pay for."

I paid only $90 for Suse 9.1. One good thing is that it came with two hefty paperback manuals in a convenient box just the right size for a doorstop. Do you Redhat and Mandrake buyers get the same utility?

My message to the Linux vendors is "Welcome to the commercial world. Read the title of this topic, and if you claim your Linux plays well with Windows, you damn well better make sure it does, before charging me money for your product."