S C wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:
> For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. It is one. > However, I still cannot print, Have you tried troubleshooting it with the Printing HOWTO on linuxdoc.org? > format/initialize a new cd There's a CD Recording HOWTO as well as K3B being pretty much just load and go, easier than Nero on the first try... > or use one to back up files, CDs aren't the best medium, you'll probably be better off getting an external hard drive and using faubackup or something similar. > get the sound working, Sound HOWTO should help you if it doesn't Just Work(tm). > watch a movie Did you try any basic troubleshooting? I've yet to have problems with this, the first time I tried, it just worked. > or read images from my digital camera. > With Windows all this was simple. I never thought so. What with having to use the CD and having to do all the package management and driver wrangling by hand. Screw that, I have better things to do than babysit an install. Like refill my coffee. All that's semiautomatic in most cases in Debian. > It works without expecting me to become a systems engineer. No, it doesn't. Worse yet, it convinces people that they know everything about computers without actually knowing anything. This is dangerous to the point of being harmful, and promotes malicious exploitation of systems and FUD. > When I go to someplace like freenode/#debian I am ignored. Maybe I should > say to Hell with Linux and sell my story to Microsoft. Obviously I don't > really want to, but how much longer should I put up with a partial OS? Given that Windows supports less hardware and has fewer applications than Linux, and with next to nothing useful with Windows right out of the box, I'm not sure how you're comparing Linux to be a partial OS by comparison. (Remember, programs are programs, applications aren't programs but categories. OpenOffice Writer is a program. Word processing is an application.) -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
