[ILUG] [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk: Re: IDE error on 2.4.17]

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Nick Murtagh (murtaghn at tcd.ie):

> Hands up who's never had 'fun' with drivers and hardware installation on a 
> Microsoft OS? 

I've noticed that, because of Microsoft's preload monopoly, people often
claim installation of Microsoft OSes is "easy", having never (or seldom)
actually performed them -- having no clue what hell some engineer had to
go through in creating the installation image that got mass-copied out
to the machine.