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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Lots of people need a "guru", it takes tenacity to learn the ropes. I'm still waiting for audio apps(multitracking) to fall out of the sky, myself. Maybe bleeding-edge hardware is poorly supported, but that's not very important for people on a budget. Especially people who don't want to pay rediculous amounts for common software. There's more good apps written by those who like to code than you'd ever expect, and the companies who rely on obscene cash flow for their business model are going to fade away. I've been using Linux more often than not for the past three years, and it's close enough to completion(in terms of apps for every purpose) that I'm dumping Windows forever. While I still keep a windows partition, I haven't booted into it for over a month. Still worry about web pages that won't load properly unless viewed with IE, but seems to be less & less of a problem. Either the Linux browsers are getting better, or MS gave up trying to own the internet. Hell, I guess the Linux browsers are getting better, because MS certainly hasn't given up their efforts to control the world by controlling the internet!!