On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Vic wrote:
> Uh oh, I hope you don't have a trouble with some of
> the hardware in the machine that your using.
(snip)
Hey, don't go blaming it on the hardware now. It's pretty clear that Linux
is not an easy ride to install, no matter how stable it may be
afterwards. Mandrake 7.0 seems pretty good to me (well, apart from
trashing my Windows partition - do you think OS's suffer from sibling
rivalry?)
dave
>
> On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, paul haine mewed:
> > > OK..I didn't expect an easy ride..but I thought I'd have enough
> > > PC savvy to
> > > get through this..
> > >
> > > Linux is driving me crazy!!
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > I want to make it work..but it is becoming a pain in the ass!!
> > >
> > > Sorry, I just had to shout at someone!!
> >
> > I understand completely...I've been trying to get various flavours of Linux
> > to run on my machine for about half a year now - Redhat 5.2, 6.1, Suse
> > 6.something, and Mandrake 7 is the first that's actually managed to make it
> > to the end of the installation. And still, I get freezes, crashes - at least
> > with Windows you sometimes get a chance to recover, but with Linux it just
> > stops working, kaput.
> >
> > With this plus all the hassle having to configure every little detail
> > yourself, I think Linux for me is just going to remain a toy OS for the
> > forseeable future...
>
