Comment by blhack
16 years ago
What are you trying to do on a windows install that requires customization?
Also, fiddling with the wifi on *nix and fiddling with it on windows are...not quite the same thing.
I have no problem with it on linux (in fact, I have destroyed several keyboards in fits of rage while trying to get it working on windows.), but my mother would have absolutely no freaking CLUE how to even begin trying to get it to work.
>What are you trying to do on a windows install that requires customization?
Slipstreaming XP SP3 into a pre-SP1 ISO image, installing useful software (esp. Firefox), setting themes and desktop backgrounds, etc. I've done the first without too much pain, the second with some fiddling and mediocre results, and I don't even know if you can do the last.
What percentage of users do you suppose are doing these things? Less than 1%? Less than .5%?
As far as setting desktop backgrounds...the process is the same in KDE as it is in Windows or Gnome. (FVWM, which is actually the WM I run on most of my machines with X installed is a bit different).
As far as themes...I'm not even entirely sure that windows has themes. What do you mean by that?
>What percentage of users do you suppose are doing these things? Less than 1%? Less than .5%?
With 80+% marketshare, 0.5% of users is still a lot.
>As far as setting desktop backgrounds...the process is the same in KDE as it is in Windows or Gnome.
Sorry, I thought you meant during installation.
>As far as themes...I'm not even entirely sure that windows has themes. What do you mean by that?
Really? Right-click on XP desktop->Properties. The first tab is Themes. Microsoft used to sell them, you can download a bunch from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/desktop/default... and there are lots of 3rd-party themes too.