Linked by Adam S on Sun 6th Apr 2003 17:18 UTC
This is my reaction to Tsu Dho Nimh's "Migrating to Linux not easy for Windows users" featured on Linuxworld.com recently. It's not a response, I'm not challenging his opinions, which I feel are not only valid, but mostly right, it's just a reaction.
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apt or urpmi are great tools that let us have access to tons of software, but the problem is that your system will be broken and unstable before you get a chance to setup your desktop the way you want it. Every distro revision brings a better desktop, but Linux is far from ready to be a win replacement for the average user.
The wizards keep breaking the system, hardware support is lagging (I know it's the fault of hardware manufacturers...). It always turns to lenghty sessions of HOWTO reading and vi editing to just get the damn thing fixed.
Tried Man9.1 on 3 different computers, different packages installed, different problems, none works flawlessly.