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Old 02-22-2014, 10:34 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by Jessica Lares View Post
Since OS X Lion, Macs have had a built-in recovery partition that you can re-install the OS from. If you accidentally nuke it (like I did a few months ago), the ROM (do they still call it that?) has the ability to connect to the internet and re-download the installer so you don't have to go to the Apple Store to fix it.
You do have that option on most Windows PCs as well. How good the Factory Image is is another question, personally I'd go with imaging the computer once I first set it up the way I like regardless... I don't think the generic solution is ever the best way to go...

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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
I've only been dual-booting to Linux since 2012, but I don't yet use it most of the time. Maybe I picked the wrong distribution (OpenSUSE), and maybe I'm still too much of a newbie to judge, but:

-- Linux updates are rarely, if ever, automatic, and much harder to install than those from Microsoft, including Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Being told I have to make sure I have all the old OpenSUSE updates before putting on a new one is not user-friendly, and deters me from putting on any of them.

-- The application I use the most is Calibre. Yes, it runs fine on Linux, and updates come out at the same time as they do for Windows. But it is easy to install an old Calibre version on Linux (the one in your distribution), and harder to update there.
I don't know much about OpenSUSE, but I have to agree with afv011, that debian/ubuntu is pretty painless.

And you should not be installing calibre from the distro, for precisely that reason. Distros don't update most programs weekly, for a non-core component like calibre being updated weekly, you will probably never see a non-security update.

Install from Kovid's website, it is the recommended way. It is pretty painless, in fact it is simplicity itself, and I've never heard of anyone having to reinstall calibre on linux, the way Windows will sometimes corrupt the install.

You can also auto-update calibre if you use a cronjob.
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