> Doubtful, and the install is not the largest problem. The largest > problem is the way *Nix was evolved. It wasn't meant to be anything but > a distributed computing environment. So it was not meant either to be > used by anything but gurus. Configuration & use aren't easy on Linux. > Maybe that will change. I hope so.
Huh? This already has already changed--quite drastically, I think. Everything hooked up to my Linux box works fine including sound, video, printing, networking, and CD burning, and I never once touched a config file! The only config files I mess with are server files. When it comes to just getting the computer to work, I'd have to say that messing with config files is the -exception- rather than the rule. > I mean, why do I have to edit a cfg file in *nix to get a > modem to HUP & NOHUP properly(If that's a good example?). I don't have a modem in my Linux box, so I really don't know how tough it is to get one to work. Neverthless, even if it is tough, it's still the exception. > My point...I can't even give a decent example because this > OS is not intuitive. Granted M$'s isn't either in some ways, however > they at least *attempt* to make it so, and do well at it for the most > part. I'd have to disagree because I think this is a learn/relearn issue. Setting up a video card, for example, is really no more intuitive in Winsux than it is in Linux, and I see this all the time whilst consulting. All my clients use Winsux, and not one of them could tell you how to even change the screen resolution. I think it just seems more intuitive because most people learn the M$ method first. Miark P.S. I hope no Mandrake developers are reading this--I think they'd take great exception to the idea that they don't even attempt to make things easy. I understand it's one of their driving goals!
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