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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>Actually, I really do think a lot of what this fellow has to say is pretty legitimate.
I agree. I've been through many many Linux distros and have had pretty much the same experience with most of them.
Redhat came closest for me and I ran it for a while, SuSe, Mandrake, Knoppix, and others had killer problems of one sort or another so I ended up ditching them and trying something else.
I finally took a chance on Xandros and couldn't be happier. It works with all my hardware, gives me easy access to the windows network and is simple and fast to setup. It even allows me to print to my hp printer connected to a windows machine on the network, something I've never been able to do with Linux. And being Debian, software installation is generally trivial.