Windows fail

[anaea]

My shiny new contract starts Monday and it occurred to me that since the software I'll be working on doesn't support a Linux-based working environment, I ought to resurrect my Windows partition on Ifrit. And hey, there was a new release of Ubuntu in October and I should get around to upgrading while I'm at it. So I figured I'd spend a couple

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[phealy]

While this is all true, I do want to put a bit of a word in for Microsoft - the "only copy is on the recovery partition" is an OEM cost-savings thing, so blame your manufacturer, not MS. The rest of it... yeah, sounds about right.

[anaea]

Woah, you're still alive? What have you been up to?

And while I take your point, Ifrit's a netbook. Having an OS that won't let me make a startup disc, or better yet, a startup flash drive, without some hacking, is all on Microsoft. (And it turns out it did come with a startup DVD, something I ran across while looking for my activation key, which was a whole other set of fun...)

[alwaysbored89]

Mine didn't come with a DVD. Why'd you get one?

[alwaysbored89]

Or do you mean drivers and not OS. I got a drivers one, but no OS

[alwaysbored89]

Did I ever tell you how my school's contract with Windows changed to only include selling 7 (instead of XP and Vista), and by 7 I mean 7 upgrade discs that only work if you have a functional copy of Vista installed, but they still advertise it as having 7 install discs?

[anaea]

Many, many times.