[conspire] conspire Digest, Vol 54, Issue 20  Rick Moen rick at
linuxmafia.com Wed Nov 21 15:57:22 PST 2007  Just my opinion,
Bruce:  Your quoting technique is so illegible that  hardly
anyone's going to plow through it to figure out what you're
saying.  (As an aid to any who're tempted, Bruce is currently
using "..." before and after his own new sections.  Stuff on the
other side of the elipsis -- if you can figure out which side is
which -- is quoted from some prior poster.  Quoting Bruce Coston
(jane_ikari at yahoo.com):  > I firmly believe new users should
multi boot and test many  > distributions.   My own view, by
contrast, is that new users should eschew multibooting if
possible.  If they have time and interest, they should indeed
test many distributions -- one at a time.  Among the many
reasons why multibooting seldom works well is that the user is
generally kidding him/herself into thinking he/she will spend
time in both/each operating system, but in fact ends up spending
almost all time in one to th