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[quote="bigtomrodney"] Originally Posted by LondoJowo From what I see around the forums most people here that dual boot do their downloading in XP, with all the USB modem and WinModem ...
  1. 09-17-2005 #21
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    [quote="bigtomrodney"]
    Quote Originally Posted by LondoJowo
    From what I see around the forums most people here that dual boot do their downloading in XP, with all the USB modem and WinModem woes.
    I don't, I mean with 99.999% of software you can AT LEAST download the software in linux.
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    Perhaps I'm missing something here, but rather than becoming angry with Microsoft, shouldn't the inability to download MS software using Linux be considered a "highly desirable" Linux feature?
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    Quote Originally Posted by bigtomrodney
    From what I see around the forums most people here that dual boot do their downloading in XP, with all the USB modem and WinModem woes.
    Luckily this is the only file I've run across (even from Microsoft) that I couldn't download within SuSE. Normally I download the files I want, copy them to my USB drive (FAT32), and then use the file in whatever OS I need.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ozar
    Perhaps I'm missing something here, but rather than becoming angry with Microsoft, shouldn't the inability to download MS software using Linux be considered a "highly desirable" Linux feature?
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