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Ubuntu is really easy to install - not sure when you last did this. It will find the Nvidia binary driver for you and get it. Browsing the web is easy, you've got firefox and chrome right there, youtube works (which is all the video most want).

Windows 7 on the other hand is hard, it installs with virtually no drivers leaving you to find them from all over the web, it's a awful experience.

P.S. I played DOS games in the 90s it was harder than Ubuntu is now.

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DOS was actually pretty simple itself.

1. Insert disk (as always) 2. A: 3. DIR.EXE 4. Type in the name of the exe

Precise commands were often printed on the label. Having to manually figure out a correct SET BLASTER command was rare but sound cards came with a useful manual to keep you going. No one seemed too bothered by the lack of a GUI. Now people ask me if they should click the left or right mouse button all the time and I have to tell them to single-click hyperlinks and buttons. Heck, some don't even see them until I point them out. Does a GUI really enable them to use a computer more easily or would they more easily adjust to a written language akin to commandeering a dog?

HIMEM.SYS :-P

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