I thought that the open-source community was suposed to be better..
No, we're not, we make up stuff just like the bad boys. The difference is, when we make up stuff, everyone is free to modify it in any way they want, provided they grant others the same right...
I'm sure I'm not the first or the last to observe that the world is not ready for any operating system. 90 percent of the Windows or Mac users I know (and I know a lot!) know about less than 10% of the features their operating system offers, and they can use about half of these. The reason why Linux distros seem so demanding is that there is very little you can do with it if you only know 5% of the features. This is not an inherent problem -- it is perfectly possible to create a distro where a knowledge of 5% of the features is enough to write emails, surf the web, write a letter and watch ripped DVDs. But Linux users and distributors are not content with knowing those 5% and so such a distribution does not exist.
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I thought that the open-source community was suposed to be better..
No, we're not, we make up stuff just like the bad boys. The difference is, when we make up stuff, everyone is free to modify it in any way they want, provided they grant others the same right...
I'm sure I'm not the first or the last to observe that the world is not ready for any operating system. 90 percent of the Windows or Mac users I know (and I know a lot!) know about less than 10% of the features their operating system offers, and they can use about half of these. The reason why Linux distros seem so demanding is that there is very little you can do with it if you only know 5% of the features. This is not an inherent problem -- it is perfectly possible to create a distro where a knowledge of 5% of the features is enough to write emails, surf the web, write a letter and watch ripped DVDs. But Linux users and distributors are not content with knowing those 5% and so such a distribution does not exist.