Linked by Iain Alexander on Thu 17th Apr 2003 07:28 UTC
Several days ago I wrote a rather scathing article about my utter dismay and disappoint with Mandrake 9.1 and by association, Linux as a whole. Since then I have had many many flames and equally as many agreeing emails (is there a simple opposite word for flame?) Since then I have been trying, really really trying to get my system working fully. But time and again I'm coming up against the same brick wall of (un)usability, computer esotericism and down right idiocy. 
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Here is my experience working with XP, Mandrake and Debian.
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Case #1:
I get a DivX version of Shrek, try to copy it on Toshiba sattelite laptop with XP installed on it (I do not own the laptop). The copying process goes until 60% and then quits resulting with a Cyclic Redundancy Check Error. I try the same thing on my Desktop with XP loaded (there are also Mandrake 8.2 and Debian 3.0r0) and the same thing happens. So, it is up to the CD media! I do not watch DivXs on my desktop since it is 300 MHz, bla, bla, ... Then, I watch the movie on the laptop directly from the CD. Everything goes OK until the same place where the CD is "destroyed" and XP freezes. Reset! Here comes the interesting part. I fire up Debian and copy the contents of the CD with no and absolutely no problems at all!!! I started ProFTP daemon, copied the movie on the laptop, watched the movie and went to bed
Case #2:
I am sure you know about the CDs that come with the magazines and have web interface for accessing the contents of the CD. There is index.html file in the CD's root, you click it (double-click), the browser fires up and you start reading. Not so easy with XP if that file is corrupted. Windows Explorer freezes and you can not even read the contents of the CD. No other idea but to fire up Debian and copy the CD contents except that index.html file of course
Case #3:
I do not know if any of you know that you can have problems with the floppy disks when you use them on different floppy drives. It does not happen too often but it can happen. Even more, you can not format them under XP. There is an error which I can not remember what was it about. The solution is to start Debian (or any Linux) and format the floppy using kfloppy. This happened to me 5-6 times.
I dived into Linux world using Mandrake. Now I am using Debian. No problems, no nothing.