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Replying to:

The Hell That Is Linux (Installation)

or ‘How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love (well, at least not hate) XP’
Monday 12 June 2006 by Carl Bateman
I hate M$, really hate it, hate it with a passion. I would dearly love to use Linux for many reasons, because it’s Open Source, to play with all those lovely toys I’ve read so much about (programming tools, OpenGL, etc.), just to try it out to see what all the fuss is about, to bask in the Nirvana that is Linux, because it’s not M$. From time to time I try to install Linux. Over the last three or four years I’ve made about ten attempts on two different desktop (...)

Replying to:

The Hell That Is Linux (Installation)

Wednesday 14 June 2006

I agree with you! Linux has been nothing but a complete nightmare for me also!!

At once point I did finally get a good install and then tried to install other additional software.

I had to wade thru loads of configuration files with no decent help to guide me.

I guess I enabled/disabled the wrong option, because when I reboot the machine, the OS was trashed!

Luckily I installed under VMWare and didn’t trash my faithful WinXP.



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