I can only wholeheartedly agree to that.
About a year ago, a good friend of mine really got into the swing of things with Linux. To which point he has now become quite adept at it and swears off all things not open source and Microsoft related. And having visited him and at that point in time
At the time I was quite susceptible to taking a closer look at Linux as it did looked promising. I mean, how hard could it be I thought? My buddy didn't seem to have much difficulty.
And I was particularly pissed off at Windows at the time as my system was wholly uncooperative and doing its BSOD dance.
After recommendation from my friend, I downloaded Debian. Although why, I don't really know. (so many bloody distro's to choose from.)
A tip is a tip though, so I went with it. Living continents apart he insisted he should help me with the install via remote assistance. But me wanting to get to grips with the system ASAP, figured I could manage myself.
Needless to say it took three whole days to get from popping in the install CD to actually looking at a workable GUI. Not to mention that I had to reinstall about three times on the first day because of errors made. (What to do when stuck in the shell with no ideas of what the basic commands are?)
Or the million programs you get that, frankly I don't have a clue what they are good for. Or all those dependencies and such!
When I finally did have a GUI to actually play with I was confronted with being stuck in 800*600 res on a 19" without driver support for my ATi. Which was kind of a problem, because some of the option menus were off screen and you couldn't reach buttons to continue.
Faced with a dilemma I tried downloading Linux drivers from ATi, which were downloaded but being the n00b I was, I didn't find them. Nor were they in/Home.
My buddy then informs me I would have to recompile the Kernel to get my res fixed, which he admitted was probably a bit more than I was capable of.
Having been confronted with this, I promptly returned to what now seemed like Ol' Faithful herself after five days of struggling. Namely to my WinXP platform.
And since then I haven't looked back. Linux interest has died for me as long it maintains to being an OS for programmers and the very technically minded (of which I am not one).
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I can only wholeheartedly agree to that. About a year ago, a good friend of mine really got into the swing of things with Linux. To which point he has now become quite adept at it and swears off all things not open source and Microsoft related. And having visited him and at that point in time At the time I was quite susceptible to taking a closer look at Linux as it did looked promising. I mean, how hard could it be I thought? My buddy didn't seem to have much difficulty. And I was particularly pissed off at Windows at the time as my system was wholly uncooperative and doing its BSOD dance. After recommendation from my friend, I downloaded Debian. Although why, I don't really know. (so many bloody distro's to choose from.) A tip is a tip though, so I went with it. Living continents apart he insisted he should help me with the install via remote assistance. But me wanting to get to grips with the system ASAP, figured I could manage myself. Needless to say it took three whole days to get from popping in the install CD to actually looking at a workable GUI. Not to mention that I had to reinstall about three times on the first day because of errors made. (What to do when stuck in the shell with no ideas of what the basic commands are?) Or the million programs you get that, frankly I don't have a clue what they are good for. Or all those dependencies and such! When I finally did have a GUI to actually play with I was confronted with being stuck in 800*600 res on a 19" without driver support for my ATi. Which was kind of a problem, because some of the option menus were off screen and you couldn't reach buttons to continue. Faced with a dilemma I tried downloading Linux drivers from ATi, which were downloaded but being the n00b I was, I didn't find them. Nor were they in /Home.
My buddy then informs me I would have to recompile the Kernel to get my res fixed, which he admitted was probably a bit more than I was capable of.
Having been confronted with this, I promptly returned to what now seemed like Ol' Faithful herself after five days of struggling. Namely to my WinXP platform.
And since then I haven't looked back. Linux interest has died for me as long it maintains to being an OS for programmers and the very technically minded (of which I am not one).