On Tuesday 24 February 2004 3:08 pm, Alexander H.M. Ruoff wrote:
Moral of the story? A newbie as lame as myself did quite well with Linux of various flavors on various levels of hardware; even though I realize i had setbacks, I figured out alternates and other ways around; and, finally I realized that Linux is worth the work, and is accessible to everyone.
Same with me, don't know anything 'bout PCs but installed Mandrake and Fedora and had no problem.
I can't understand that someone who boasts that they know alot about computers could say that they had trouble with linux.
Huh? Are you saying that Linux never gives trouble?? Trust me, 99% of the problems I face with Linux I can solve, either by figuring it out myself or using the Internet as a technical reference... This problem was unsolvable for me and I need a working system at home... I was not installing it as a toy or a hobbyist machine. I was installing it with the eventual desire to erase Windows from my machine completely, and ran right into a brick wall. I wasted a lot of time trying to get this to work.
However, if I had been getting paid for this, I would probably have been much more motivated to dig deeper and perhaps solve this. As it is, I am so burnt out that I barely have the desire to turn the power switch on when I come home at night after a full day of dealing with Linux problems at work that I get paid to solve. I sometimes don't turn on my home system for up to a week at a time.
That's the part which I find strange, a kernel hacker who gives up on Linux?
Maybe that, better than anything else, shows how frustrated I am with this. Since I do get paid for this, it is not a hobby or "fun" to come home and wrestle with the same problems.