Linked by Iain Alexander on Thu 17th Apr 2003 07:28 UTC
Several days ago I wrote a rather scathing article about my utter dismay and disappoint with Mandrake 9.1 and by association, Linux as a whole. Since then I have had many many flames and equally as many agreeing emails (is there a simple opposite word for flame?) Since then I have been trying, really really trying to get my system working fully. But time and again I'm coming up against the same brick wall of (un)usability, computer esotericism and down right idiocy. 
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I've been trying all sorts of distros for years, always failed to install a usable version of GNU/Linux. I've been through the hell of rpm dependencies, Mandrake's inconsistency, Debian's obscurity, Lycoris' lameness. But I kept trying, because I hate failure.
Now I use Linux From Scratch on my laptop along with Fluxbox, Mozilla, XMMS, MPlayer, the GIMP, GQview, vim, among others, and connect to the Internet in WiFi. I wouldn't want to use anything else, besides maybe MacOS X (when I get rich). My system is totally tweaked and fits my needs.
The problem with GNU/Linux as it is today, IMHO, is that you have to be obstinate to make it usable. That's why LFS became my only viable choice.