dual booting XP and Linux

[Timothy Murphy]

Mike McCarty wrote:
 
> What context is there in which being told what one has said
> is "nonsense" would not be expected to evoke a negative response?
> In what way is it unreasonable to be angry when one it told
> that it is nonsense that one's machine behaves in a certain way,
> by someone who obviously doesn't know what he's talking about?

You are being dishonest.
I did not say anything about your machine.

The actual exchange was:
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> While GRUB+Linux is not a good match, it is a reasonable
> match, and works pretty well, whereas GRUB+WinXP is a poor match,
> and the WinXP boot manager is a pretty reasonable tool.

That's nonsense.
Millions of people are using grub to boot Linux and/or Windows.
It works perfectly well.
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