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 disagree 100% with the above quote. Way to go idiot. If new users don't get scared off by linux itself they're sure to get scared off by your lame attitude.
The author of the article had a lot of legitimate concerns. I've experienced a lot of the same problems with linux before and I know how overwhelmed new users must feel. Even those with a fair amount of *nix background (such as myself) get annoyed with silly things that don't work. It's not that it's hard to get around these problems -- it's bloody annoying. It doesn't take brains, often it takes patience and endurance -- NOT everybody has time for this nonsense. When you know how something should work and how easy it should be you get quite frustrated when you can't seem to get it to work right.
Which is why I no longer use linux