Subj : Re: Linux Gives Me Heartburn, But Compared To Windows?
To   : alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux
From : The Saint
Date : Thu Aug 19 2004 04:09 am

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 01:50:04 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:

> I'm using linux about a month. mail and news and web browsing is fine;
> Kooka and Gimp can't seem to get serious with my scanner - maybe one
> preview scan, then crap out when I try to do the final scan;  It won't
> recognize my eth0 card - I can't see the other windows computer on our
> lan and it can't see my linux machine; Can't find a matching driver for
> my printer. The nearest match I could find prints everything 1/4 size.
> 
> So am I going back to windows? Hell no! After running those bloated
> applications and seeing my computer slow down, freeze, hang, bsod, at
> the drop of a hat; after being in a constant semi-rage at having to run
> applications that I *knew* were far too big for what I needed or even
> for what they could do; after being stuck with an OS that did everything
> in the most complicated way possible; after years of being wedded to
> that insane rubbish, seemingly with no escape, I have embraced the
> lovely linux and shall remain true to her.
> 
> I will be happy to confine my computing to mail, news, and browsing, if
> that is what I have to do; however, I am sure that my knowledge of linux
> will creep forward until I can fix the stuff that isn't working.
> 
> My thanks to all the experts here who answer our bewildered questions.

    As another new Linux user I agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Nomen Nescio
above. Like him, I am happy to take a few years to become aquainted with
my new favourite OS. Considering I spent the last 8 years learning an OS
that wanted me to do anything BUT learn, I cannot help but feel I am
finally in charge. I may even get to use the limited C & C++ skills I
aquired all those years ago.

    Kudos to the experts who roam, looking for us lost sheep. I look
forward to the day when it is I who gives some good advice.

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