On Tuesday 24 February 2004 3:08 pm, Alexander H.M. Ruoff wrote: > > 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. Huh? Are you saying that Linux never gives trouble?? Trust me, 99% of the problems I face with Linux I can solve, either by figuring it out myself or using the Internet as a technical reference... This problem was unsolvable for me and I need a working system at home... I was not installing it as a toy or a hobbyist machine. I was installing it with the eventual desire to erase Windows from my machine completely, and ran right into a brick wall. I wasted a lot of time trying to get this to work. However, if I had been getting paid for this, I would probably have been much more motivated to dig deeper and perhaps solve this. As it is, I am so burnt out that I barely have the desire to turn the power switch on when I come home at night after a full day of dealing with Linux problems at work that I get paid to solve. I sometimes don't turn on my home system for up to a week at a time. > > That's the part which I find strange, a kernel hacker who gives up on > Linux? Maybe that, better than anything else, shows how frustrated I am with this. Since I do get paid for this, it is not a hobby or "fun" to come home and wrestle with the same problems.
