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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"Go do something productive instead of writing some meanless article about how you can't install Linux. Write an article telling us the glory of Windows please."
I agree 100% with the above quote. The first article might have seemed helpful or given the *volunteer developers of Linux* something to think about (in their spare time, of course--I shouldn't even be doing *this* right now because I'm not being paid to...). But when I see something like this going on, I can't continue to give credibility to the writer (beyond suspicion that we're talking about either a griper or a MS shill.)
How much effort has the author made to bring these problems to the attention of the developers? I don't have time to bother them, nor time to *contribute* so I put up with what I get. It still improves and improves, anyway, because the people who *do* have time to work on these things *care* about what they're doing.
Anyway, this is basically a blanket dismissial; if I see any more pointers to these kinds of articles, I plan to ignore them. I'll be much more interested in positive contributions from now on (e.g., "I found a great site that talks about how to IMPROVE the xxx distro...")