Lorcin wrote on Jul 25, 2012, 20:46:
Running linux on a pc is much akin to my mobile phone. My phone runs a custom firmware hack to get the android 2.3 OS running on a handset that Sony Ericsson have never updated beyond android 2.1.
The problem is although I researched and worked out exactly what I needed to do for a weekend to take it from stock to custom OS, now 3 months later apparently updates are available for it. But I can't for the life of me remember which hoops and loops I need to jump through to get the updates installed - and frankly I can't be bothered to relearn.
Until linux offers SIGNIFICANTLY improved performance vs windows ?? then I'm afraid I'll end up sticking to windows because it's easy to learn and helpfull (yeah mainly overly helpful but meh)
Your example of running a custom ROM for your Android phone is nothing like running Linux on a PC. Most modern distros take the work out of everything, it is nothing like running Slackware 10 years ago. Since you mentioned it, upgrading a custom ROM is usually as simple as dropping the file into storage and going into recovery mode, it's the initial rooting process that takes awhile. Next time I'd get a Nexus device, it's what Google targets as a hardware base and it gets timely OTA updates for at least a few years.
I liked Me as a consumer OS, of course not for business or as a server or anything. I would always just use Firefox as the browser, not that crap IE.
So what if it would crash every other day. Just reboot and get back to Minesweeper, Spider Solitaire and web based research.
Firefox wasn't even released until 2004, I'm not sure why you were putting Windows ME on other peoples computers when Windows XP was out in 2001 and already a better operating system right out of the gate. Just reboot every day, seriously? Amazing.