I've used Windows for years, and I can do just about anything I'd ever want to do with it. Stability issues are my biggest complaint with Windows, and that, coupled with my hatred for Microsoft, caused me to give Linux a try.
I'm about five hours into using Mandrake 9.0 and I'm having what I would consider fairly basic problems. For example, I'm still not able to get Mozilla set up to where the upper portion of the browser with the drop-down menus and buttons is even readable without a magnifying glass. I've also had no luck in getting the mouse wheel to work in either Mozilla or Konqueror. If there are easy answers to my problems, they are eluding me at the moment. I'd like nothing more than to be a Linux-only user, but if the experiences I've had in trying to switch are represenative of the learning curve involved, it might take me a few months to even get my e-mail set up on it.
For now, I'll have to keep using Windows until I have a lot of time to devote to learning more about Linux. Was it this hard for everyone or am I just (un)lucky?
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Gee, it couldn't have had anything to do with a certain three-day holiday weekend in the U.S. that fell during that week, right? What was it again?
I've used Windows for years, and I can do just about anything I'd ever want to do with it. Stability issues are my biggest complaint with Windows, and that, coupled with my hatred for Microsoft, caused me to give Linux a try.
I'm about five hours into using Mandrake 9.0 and I'm having what I would consider fairly basic problems. For example, I'm still not able to get Mozilla set up to where the upper portion of the browser with the drop-down menus and buttons is even readable without a magnifying glass. I've also had no luck in getting the mouse wheel to work in either Mozilla or Konqueror. If there are easy answers to my problems, they are eluding me at the moment. I'd like nothing more than to be a Linux-only user, but if the experiences I've had in trying to switch are represenative of the learning curve involved, it might take me a few months to even get my e-mail set up on it.
For now, I'll have to keep using Windows until I have a lot of time to devote to learning more about Linux. Was it this hard for everyone or am I just (un)lucky?