On Thursday 21 Feb 2002 9:37 pm, Zach Fine wrote:

>
> We won't see that at all, it's a lot easier than you think to
> install Windows. Installing WindowsXP on a few PCs I recently built
> worked like clockwork. With almost no input from the user the XP
> installer set up and configured the graphics card, sound hardware,
> network interface, installed a bunch of programs and a desktop, and
> created a few user accounts. They've worked flawlessly since. I
> love NetBSD and have been running it since version 1.2, but I think
> as regards ease of installation we shouldn't be throwing any
> stones. 

Having said that a recent magazine article compared WIndows XP and 
various Linux distributions and found they all did well, installing 
with ease BUT the only installation that handled everything without a 
flaw was indeed Mandrake Linux and not Windows. I can't recall what 
the issue was the Windows failed to deal with. I know what most of 
the Linux distributions failed to handle was the ATA drive installed 
in cable select mode.

--Sean