If it bothers you, why not start a project to code an "easier" way to do
it... (I've been thinking the same sorts of things myself) - a number of
projects have swum around in my mind, to resolve this like maybe looking
at putting together a "cut-back" version of linux with bare essentials
and then the means to easily install each item one-at-a-time (rather
than the en-masse information-overload strategy used by red-hat)...maybe
by hacking the rpm format a little (I dunno)
linux is the way it is because a bunch of people freely donated their
time and programming talents to put together a robuts operating
system... it still needs further donations to make it as "nice" as
win95... (though win95/nt gives you "nice" things at the expense of
stability, efficiency, flexibility, customisability, etc... (as well as
just plain expense!!!) ) 8-)
regards
David Buddrige
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Taylor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 1996 11:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: XWindows damaging my monitor?!
>
> ps.
> You know what bothers me? Windows 95 does not need to know all this
> information when setting up the display? However, XFree wants to know
> everything except my shoe size!
>
> I'm using Linux because of its stability, efficiency, and development
> tools. If Win 95 offered these to me I'd never touch Linux again.
>
> I know there's complexity associated with power, but couldn't there be
> a
> simpler layer (GUI) available for newbies. At the moment, I'd give
> anything to be able to configure this system via buttons and textboxes
> ;-).
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