- XP & Mandrake comparison
- Posted by Mark Gary on November 6th, 2003
I bought myself today a MuVo 128MB usb drive & mp3 player. Wanting to
play with my new toy quickly, I plugged it into my desktop at work, which
runs WinXP. It took XP around 5 minutes to configure itself, as it
attempted to load the built in drivers for it. During this whole farce,
my system was totally locked up, before eventually presenting me with an E
drive.
Now compare that with what happend when I plugged it into my laptop at
home, running Mandrake. The kernel recognized it immediately, and then
almost at the same time, a mount point was created for it. What
efficiency. The whole process taking no less than about 2 seconds.
How can anyone take seriously windows as a good operating system?
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- Posted by Lee Wei Shun on November 6th, 2003
Mark Gary wrote:
<conspiracy mode>
Of course, you will never know how many seconds of the 5 minutes were busily
spent cataloguing your songs and looking up the DRM database to see if you
had "illegal" content on your player.....
</conspiracy mode>
;-/
WS
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- Posted by flatfish+++ on November 6th, 2003
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:27:43 +0800, Lee Wei Shun wrote:
You beat me to it 
flatfish+++
- Posted by Mark on November 8th, 2003
On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 03:16:48 +0000, flatfish+++ wrote:
I actually wonder if you are both right, joking aside. it did have by
default one single mp3, that Creative put on it for demo purposes.
Perhaps XP had to spend five minutes trying to ascertain where or not it
was legal or not. Or perhaps i'm just being paranoid, and the fact is XP
is a piece of inificient sh*t.
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