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And, of course, each release of Red Hat Linux supports more hardware than the one before it.

My experience tells me otherwise, and many other reviews extant support my position.
>Red Hat 9 supposedly supports the ancient ATI Mach64, but I couldn't perform a graphical installation because my laptop's LCD display isn't supported.

Yeah, you must have an old Omnibook. They barely work in Windows too so quit complaining.

>It's funny that last time I tried Red Hat it did something quite similar, but ONLY after that aggravating package selection routine.

Click, click, click, go. I can see where your becoming frustrated.

>Red Hat is well versed in creating anger and hatred.

Huh? No, people without patience are the ones creating hatred and anger.

>Linux propagates only because misery loves company.

Riight, "This application has performed an illegal operation" dialog boxes proagate joy and bliss amongst all.

>After installation, there is no power management whatsoever. Zip. Nada. My BIOS is an ancient APM unit

Yeah, don't blame the OS for your vendor's inability to ship a product that conforms to standards. Write a letter to your vendor demanding drivers for the platform or shut the hell up. Whining about it only makes you look bad.

>I suspect that power management features do not exist for Linux, but who can be sure?

Yeah, there's an educated comment. How much time did you spend researching before you made that claim? Lemme lay it on you in elapsed seconds *0*

>With creative program naming as exhibited by grip, PAN and less, plus thousands of other unintuitively-named specimens, one can never tell simply by name what a program is to be used for.

Right, watch the install process and read the descriptions. You do know how to read right?

>your device loses its mounted position so that the next time you plug it in, any links to that device will need to be updated MANUALLY

Huh? That's just not true at all. My Camera is ALWAYS /dev/sda1 and ALWAYS mounts on /mnt/camera.

>Side note: all fonts are - well, my text looks smeared with vaseline, so I guess you'd call that "anti-aliased." How obnoxious

PFFT, go to preferences and change it then. Click RedHat, then Preferences, then Fonts. Now choose from the many options available until you find a setting that suits you. See, that was easy even for the more simple minded beings.

>Web browsing: Mozilla has some very unique middle-click functionality - sends me to the default Red Hat Home Page, despite the fact that I've changed the home page to the Register.

No, it doesn't. I have mozilla on a dozen systems with tabs turned on on EACH OF THEM, and NONE of them exhibit the behavior you describe.

>Even Mozilla on Win32 behaves semi-appropriately. Since it takes ten seconds to load this sucker,

I use Mozilla on both platforms, I have yet to see any difference. They both perform VERY well.

>I won't be doing much with Mozilla anyways.. what a pig.

Riight, it's a PIG. OMG it uses more memory than IE, WAAAAH!

>I dare any Red Hat user to make the taskbar smaller,

Right click in an empty slot, select "properties". Click the drop down in the center of the dialog box, and choose small or x small.

>to make more usable space. Why is so much room devoted to a few icons? Who knows.

Then change it, see above.

>The "Preferences," "System Settings," and "System Tools" should be consolidated

WHY? System Tools: Hrm probably System Tools! System Settings: Oh, I'll bet Network settings and stuff goes there!. Preferences: That's where I'd go to change my wallpaper and screensaver!

>Side note: click on "Control Center" in the "Preferences" menu, and you will get a window holding many of the settings, including an icon labeled "Control Center." Nice! You can finally access the Control Center!

OMFG, are you a damn baby or what?

>Honestly, how hard would that be? I'll bet it's plenty difficult.

If it's a problem, submit a bug report. Did you pay anything for it? I doubt it, you sound like the typical leech that expects everything to be handed to you on a silver platter without having to lift a finger.