Yes quite possibly it is frustrating. The alternatives, though, limit my ability to do work and tasks that otherwise would be impossible for me. In fact today I couldn't burn an iso in KDE so I reinitialized my dev's and switched to init 3 and burned them. With M.Scat milli-numb on my laptop (being removed right now as I install core 1) was incessantly crashing while a tried to load a program. I had no other options. Ask and someone should know another way round. On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:16, pinco wrote: > Hi, > perhaps this message will irritate all of you, that's not my intention, > so I beg your pardon if it does. > > I don't think I lack of experience in computer matters, even if I'm not > an expert (see my homepage), but I'm really frustrated with Linux (Fedora). > > Since I'm not happy with MS policy I'm trying to switch to Linux, but > until now very few programs I succeeded to install without wasting a lot > of time and even so I didn't succeed. > > I'm happy with OpenOffice, very happy with Audacity (which I discoverd > thanks to this list), but what else? > > In these days I tried a substitue to FrontPage, but I failed to install > Quanta! (I'm a newbie, but I don't have any problems with installing and > even coding on Windows. Besides I've read in a mailing list that it > crashes with Fedora Core 1). NVU is more o less a HTML editor. So I > didn't succeed to find a substiture! > > For some application, as I understood, I should have different programs > because they depend on others: OpenOffice use Mozilla, so even if I > don't like this browser I must have its libraries, if I decide to use > Gnome I must have even the KDE libraries, because some programs require > them, and so on. > > Hardware should be compatible, so I have to buy new ones. (Yes, I wrote > to the firms asking for drivers, but in the meanwhile...) > > So I ask you what wrong? > > Why am I failing to switch to Linux? > > Please, pay attention to the fact that I'm asking help, don't insult > me... if you can :) > > Thanks, > Nino > > -- > http://www.vessella.it (italiano, esperanto, kiswahili, english) > http://www.changamano.org (Iniziative di solidarietà per la Tanzania) > http://www.lernado.it (Articoli di quotidiani della Tanzania, Corso di lingua swahili, Corso di lingua esperanto, Vocabolario esperanto-italiano, Jifunze lugha ya Kiesperanto, Kamusi ya Kiesperanto) -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
