Hi,I can understand your frustration,the reason for it is that Linux is orientated to developer/geek/expert and having a programme run correctly
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
rather than being end-user friendly - meaning - less confusing doco's and better installation and less .configs to screw up.
Take a look at these pages,it explains it a lot better
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html
http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/luxury-part-deux.html
david
