Your problem is that you tried three distros targeted at a competent experienced Linux user. If you tried Mandrake, SuSE or Red Hat, I assure you your impression of the install process would be absolutely different.
"Linux is hard to install" was a popular attack on Linux a couple of years ago, so most commercial distro vendors pushed on this issue and developped simple graphical installers. Most commercial distros are definitely not more dificult to install than Windows, and most are better documented with online help.
The inherent complexity of installing Linux is that you have to repartition a hard disk, which is unnecesarry in most cases with Windows, but this is a non-issue if you're using the whole hard drive for Linux.
When you get comfortable with the user-friendlier variants of Linux, you'll appreciate the power you are given by Gentoo, Debian, or *BSD's.
Hey wait, I can make my own release of OpenBSD too, but there's little chance it will catch on and cause trouble to the data centres. I believe it won't as well happen with ReedBSD. It's just a sad joke of the day...
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1G were the analogue networks like NMT and AMPS. GSM is 2G, GPRS and EDGE are sometimes called 2.5G.
You wouldn't have liked doing system administration there. It's Windows, Novell and, most of all, Lotus Notes (yuck!)
Your problem is that you tried three distros targeted at a competent experienced Linux user. If you tried Mandrake, SuSE or Red Hat, I assure you your impression of the install process would be absolutely different.
"Linux is hard to install" was a popular attack on Linux a couple of years ago, so most commercial distro vendors pushed on this issue and developped simple graphical installers. Most commercial distros are definitely not more dificult to install than Windows, and most are better documented with online help.
The inherent complexity of installing Linux is that you have to repartition a hard disk, which is unnecesarry in most cases with Windows, but this is a non-issue if you're using the whole hard drive for Linux.
When you get comfortable with the user-friendlier variants of Linux, you'll appreciate the power you are given by Gentoo, Debian, or *BSD's.
Hey wait, I can make my own release of OpenBSD too, but there's little chance it will catch on and cause trouble to the data centres. I believe it won't as well happen with ReedBSD. It's just a sad joke of the day...
Think DMCA. Maybe someday there was no country more free. Now there are.