> Moral of the story? A newbie as lame as myself did quite well with > Linux of various flavors on various levels of hardware; even though I > realize i had setbacks, I figured out alternates and other ways around; > and, finally I realized that Linux is worth the work, and is accessible > to everyone. Same with me, don't know anything 'bout PCs but installed Mandrake and Fedora and had no problem. > I can't understand that someone who boasts that they know alot about > computers could say that they had trouble with linux. That's the part which I find strange, a kernel hacker who gives up on Linux?