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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"Linux doesn't do$thing!" "My hardware doesn't work!" "$thing is/isn't/should be $other_thing!!!!"
Join the club, buddy. I could bitch up a storm about it finally taking a debian PPC install to realize I have a hosed SCA drive. I could whine, bitch and scream about how I had to fucking debug X11 MYSELF because the only two xconfigs I could find for similar hardware were using video cards and not mobo video, but hey, guess what? I know I'm playing with an erector set, not a Porsche. I know what I'm getting into, and it's patently obvious that you don't.
You want all your gear to Just Work? Want to not have to compile applications? Want your video card to run? With all the features? Then run Windows or MacOS.
Linux is still a work in progress in a vast variety of areas. This kind of whining doesn't do anything to help it along- this article, in fact, is about as bad as my coworker trying to transition from NT4 to debian. The temper tantrums were fierce, I tell you.
If you want Linux to Just Work Damnit, then you can Just Wait Another Five Years. Until then, the kernel and all the goodies on top are still very much the province of those of us that actually want to play around- those of us who don't bitch and piss and moan when something blows up or doesn't work properly.