[mythtv-users] I'm thinking of switching to windows :(

[SixArm]

I never intended this thread to be a discussion of the merits of Linux vs.
windows.  I just wanted a bit a technical advice from the community before
trying another os.  I apologize for putting the word "windows" in the
subject.

92% of my computer usage is Linux, but I'm not really biased when it comes
to solving a problem.  Sometimes you just need a dry roof over your head and
it does't matter what kind of hammer you use to build it.

I have a simple goal.  Allow my wife to record HDTV as easily as she can now
with our hacked TiVo.  Once this is done I get to justify the purchase of a
56" 1080p HDTV.  :)  If I have to go the windows route to get this done, I
will.

I really appreciate the technical feedback and I've gotten a few good ideas
to try out.

cheers,

-sixarm

On 11/30/05, Ken Teague <kteague at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> James C. Dastrup wrote:
>
> >Just an off-topic tip:
> >
> >My biannual Windows reinstall takes 5 minutes. Image a working
> >system up to your network, then image it down when you need to
> >rebuild. And if you use sysprep, then even any hardware changes
> >don't affect the image process. Or, put a sysprep'ed image on
> >a DVD and just image it to any computer - you never need to
> >see the installation again.
> >
> >
> I think the point, here, is that, at some point in time, you do have to
> go through the 45 minute flawed installation of Windows before you can
> get to get to a point of imaging.  Lets throw sysprep in the mix and
> you've possibly added a mini-setup to your post-image dump.  Tag on the
> -pnp argument to sysprep so you can detect any new hardware you may have
> thrown in your box since its last image and you've tacked on another
> 5-10 minutes to the mini-setup.
>
> Also, a *base* Windows setup (including a copy of i386 in the root of
> C:) is roughly 1.5GB of data.  What do you get in that 1.5GB?  Lets see,
> Notepad (such a powerful text editor), Calculator, Character Map,
> WordPad (even more powerful than Notepad!), Pinball, Freecell,
> MediaPlayer, Internet Explorer, etc... but how much is actually useful,
> and how much productivity can be found?  Hardly any of it.  I can
> install Debian in 20 minutes and have a fully functional X Window System
> and tons of utilities and productivity tools.  We can leave out C:\i386
> and take away about 500MB from that 1.5GB, and that still leaves us with
> 1GB of stuff that's mostly CRAP!  To get up to speed after a post-image
> dump, you'll need to reinstall your apps which takes most of the time
> when rebuiling a box.  So, tell us... how long does it take you to get
> back to where you were after you dump the image in 5 minutes?
>
> - Ken
>
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