I am a definite newbie to the world of Linux. I have tinkered with it in the past but always had issues that prevented me from fully jumping on board.
I have been dealing with Windows since I got into computers in the early 90's. I am the guy that my friends (and their friends) call when there windows computer goes haywire (free tech support). I am no expert on Windows but I can find my way around and fix many of the common problems that pop up. I have helped friends (and myself) reinstall windows more times than I care to remember. I said the above just to show you that I am actually qualified to jump in on this thread. I bought a new hard drive for the purposes of tackling Linux again (with Mandrake9). I wanted a dual boot system (Win98 MD9). My windows partition is still not up and running (no sound, no Internet, video in basic mode). Mandrake9 was up and running within 5 min after install (it took me that long to find the papers that had my mail setting and computer name - cable internet connection). Now you tell me which was easier to install? The problem comes from the steep learning curve from Win to Linux. As I get into it again, some of it is coming back to me. I still have a long way to go to be as efficient in Linux as I am in Windows. I do know that I want to get away from Windows altogether. The way things look so far, it looks like I may be able to with MD9. So I plug away. First order of business is to tackle wine. I can say that if Linux continues to mature as it has and MS continues their idiotic policies, more of us will join you. Do not be afraid of a less than perfect review. Jump for joy for a favorable one. You are gaining ground. Russ On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 04:52, Anne Wilson wrote: > Of course some of the problems come from the fact that everything changes so > fast in Linux. We are all hungry for the latest and greatest 'improvements'. > There's nothing stopping us from taking an earlier version, but do we? As I > have said before, getting x.0 of anything is almost bound to have issues. > > On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 10:37 am, Brandon Vanderberg wrote: > > Me too, but I tried it again later and it's working now. > > I'm sorry I read it though. The best part for me was reading the responses > > to his article. ;) > > Some of them amazed me - some made me angry. In the first place I think > people do discount how long it took to get windows expertise. More important > than that, I do wonder about some of these self-styled experts. To state > that it was necessary to use an Expert install in order to keep his > partitions is blatant b***sh**. Many other comments suggest to me that the > user is not prepared to learn anything, wants everything on a plate. OK - > but accept that you have no control at all if you do. > > I have long held that a newbie to windows gets a pc with windows installed. > He has no choice, and the limited choice available to him is not apparent > unless he takes the trouble to learn about it - and many do not. The > reviewer is right that those initial problems are tackled by vendors or geeky > relatives/friends. The main difference with linux is that the user is > unlikely, in many instances, to be offered it by the vendor, and by the > numbers game, unlikely to have friends/relatives sufficiently expert to want > to be responsible for his system. > > I'm not pleading perfection in 9.0. nor for that matter in Mandrake, and I > know there is a need to have a need-list (re fixes or improvements) as well > as a wish-list (by which I mean the less urgent). > > It made interesting reading, though, even if I did keep thinking 'funny, I > didn't get that problem'. > > Anne
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