Thanks for writing this. Someone had to say it. Not all politicians head to bribe city. I would even say that most have good intensions until they get tempted by bribes and other incentives. Becoming a politician isn't the easiest road and it's definitively not the quickest path to financial success.

No, only 90% of computer has Windows. There must be a lack of experience out there.

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LOL!!!

I figured we were going backwards when the primary reason for buying a computer or smartphone was facebook.

U nailed it.

But suspend resume. Argument made.

Thanks!

It's not the school. It's the online program they use. I asked her the same thing. Apparently is fairly new software but required local running software... Not sure why.

Network connection. I would need the distro to successfully install network drivers before I can do anything with the network.

Anyhow, the fact that Linux has not gained momentum on PCs is proof that it's still not there. Sure, they got the mobile market and that's great but start throwing it random hardware and it needs drivers that may or may not be hard to find.

Not saying Linux doesn't work. What I'm saying is that it's not a simple install for home users. Windows isn't always a piece of cake either but it has much more running time than Linux on home computers. There is a much bigger pool of experience and troubleshooting since 95% of used it and still use it. I'm not talking from the side of my mouth. Proof is that Linux has NOT cough on with end users. Reason for this is that it just wasn't what they wanted.

Linux was neatly packaged as Android on very set hardware and now people buy it. The first few version of Android were garbage but when they started getting it together it became the #1 selling OS in the world. The difference here is that PCs aren't like smartphones. Each PC varies in hardware specs which is where most Linux distros fall flat on their face.

Don't take me for a Windows fanboy or Linux hater. I'm neither. I'm a technology guy that has been successful in life by picking the right technology for the right situation. Linux has it's place and so does Windows.

So your telling me there's a difference between putting intellectual knowledge in a computer program versus on paper?

At the end of the day research is research. Whether is results in a material good or not is irrelevant.

All I have to say is that people love the show and it does influence people. You don't have to believe me but there's plenty of history (for other types of shows and movies) proving otherwise. "Fast and Furious" is the most obvious one I can come up with as it created a increase presence of street racing in the early 2000.

The way I see it you are way too deep into this... I'll leave you to it because you've overcomplicated something so simple.

I'm telling you by experience. I'm not just spitting out stuff. I have hundreds of Windows 7 installs under my belt. I don't recall one install causing me issues.

I'm just curious. Are you telling me that Ubuntu installed with no additional configuration? I have friends that eat Linux for breakfast and they do not hesitate to tell me there is no straight forward installation. Sometimes it's easier but if you want a smooth running machine you need to do a little bit of tweaking.

I guess my point is that even if the ideal drivers aren't installed on Windows 7 in every case, at least it runs enough to get going where as Ubuntu I had to use the terminal to get the OS fully working. At the end of the day I always get them working if I really want to.

There's another component that I excluded. I am far more versed into the setup of Windows machines so the installation of a driver on Windows for me is a piece of cake whereas a Linux driver installed always feels like a lot of work to me. Is it lack of experience? My friends Linux buddies don't seem to think so.

I'd like to also point out that I did a setup for a company that provides on site services. They wanted a box to perform the recording of data using an SNMP connector. This connector was Linux compatible so I suggested a small x86 box that would cost less than $300 and was certified to run Ubuntu 12 and Windows XP/7. For obvious reasons I pushed for Ubuntu 12 to save the $99 / box since many would be deployed. The end result was countless hours spent trying to make Ubuntu 12 run efficiently on a box that was apparently certified to run. The initial impression wasn't very good so I assumed drivers needed to be installed since the performance of the box was SLOW. I got the box to run a little faster but it wasn't impressive by any means. Got remote access working after some tinkering (This was supposed to be built-in according to the documentation but the option shown in the documentation didn't exist in my installation). The customer felt the remote access speed was slow but what he didn't know is that was the same speed locally.

After hours of trial/error and communication with the community I decided to cut my loses and tried to get Windows 7 running. Got it going very quickly and the drivers were easy to find and get working. Although the boot up was double the of the Ubuntu installation once running it was 4 times more responsive so I pushed that final solution through. A few months after I got my Linux buddies to look at it and we even re-installed the software from scratch in case my incompetence screwed something up. Long behold they could not figure out the problem either.

That's probably the one experience that left a bad taste in my mouth amongst some of the lesser important ones.

1. I know you've never done a brake job because you wouldn't have had to copy this off a web site
2. Would you expect any car user to do this themselves?
3. Some of the simpler but critical parts of the procedure are missing

One very important step missed in the procedure:
Before reinstalling pads you must clean the pad pathways and re-lubricate it.

No performing this step will result in stick brakes which will cause:
- Wheel noise
- Premature pad wear
- Premature rotor wear

Good for you. Not my experience on many more computers than what you've done and many other users seem to share my experience including some users on /.

A person who assumes anything computer related is easy for a non-technical users should not be allowed to make suggestions on what is right for home users.

I consider changing disk brake rotors, pads and calipers easy. Can you give me the steps? Please don't skid any because I'm going to call you on it.