Yes, it's me again, the same guy who couldn't get lyx to work in Ubuntu 7.10. Just downloaded and installed what is supposed to be a COMPLETE operative LyX/LaTeX/Tex system in windows (from your download page--vers. 1.5.4). It also DOESN'T WORK!
After the installation, I clicked the desktop shortcut. Nothing happened for such a long time I was beginning to think nothing would ever happen and that the program was just broken. It took 50 sec. to start, with no indication in the meantime that anything was happening. It's running now. Apparently it eats up so much of the system resources (in WinXP, 2.8 GHz Intel Pentium 4, 1 GB of RAM) that my system has been dragged down to almost a complete halt! I've never seen things move this slowly before, EVEN IN WINDOWS! Finally, just as was the case in Linux, it WILL NOT EVEN PRINT ITS OWN DOCUMENTATION! That is just flat out RETARDED. I spent a good bit of last night installing every Latex doodad I could get my hands on in Linux. Nothing helped. Hence, my trial in Windows this afternoon. Got exactly the same error message. (Attached) I don't buy the blame-it-on-the-OS mentality that a lot of of software programmers seem to have these days (e.g., broken GIMP on Mac OS X 10.5). If the software doesn't work, it just DOESN'T WORK! (Btw, the Latex Configuration item under Help wouldn't open at all, so couldn't check that either to see what might be broken.) Thank you for your time. I'm wiping this crap off both my HDs now!
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