Re: Emacs vista build failures

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Miles,

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:45:10PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Getting a printer working was trivial as well, I did not even need
> >> to specify the driver.

> > Good for you!  It just worked.  You had a magic spell in your
> > distribution.  They either work 100% or totally fail.  In the latter
> > case, they give you NO information to help you diagnose things.
> > They say, in effect "don't worry your pretty little head about this,
> > leave everything to me".

> Of course, that's how _everything_ on windows works.  If it doesn't do
> the right thing, well, you're fucked, go buy a new computer.

The point is that installing MS-Windows _works_.  Most of the time,
pretty painlessly.  I've done it for a friend a few times.  There was no
need for me to crawl through HOWTOs or search out kernel documentation
to make it work.

That has not been my experience of GNU/Linux, in particular Debian
Sarge and some older versions of SuSE.  I accept that others have had
better experiences installing G/L.

Please don't construe this as me advocating MS-Windows.  I'm not.  It's
just that reality doesn't go away when you shut your eyes.

> -Miles

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).