Say what??
I was not bashing, I was trying to diagnose,
but I can always slack off and let someone else
do it and not contribute------
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, David Hugh-Jones mewed:
> 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...
> >
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