Is Linux always so frustating^

[david walcroft]

pinco wrote:
> Hi,
> perhaps this message will irritate all of you, that's not my intention, 
> so I beg your pardon if it does.
> 
> I don't think I lack of experience in computer matters, even if I'm not 
> an expert (see my homepage), but I'm really frustrated with Linux (Fedora).
> 
> Since I'm not happy with MS policy I'm trying to switch to Linux, but 
> until now very few programs I succeeded to install without wasting a lot 
> of time and even so I didn't succeed.
> 
> I'm happy with OpenOffice, very happy with Audacity (which I discoverd 
> thanks to this list), but what else?
> 
> In these days I tried a substitue to FrontPage, but I failed to install 
> Quanta! (I'm a newbie, but I don't have any problems with installing and 
> even coding on Windows. Besides I've read in a mailing list that it 
> crashes with Fedora Core 1). NVU is more o less a HTML editor. So I 
> didn't succeed to find a substiture!
> 
> For some application, as I understood, I should have different programs 
> because they depend on others: OpenOffice use Mozilla, so even if I 
> don't like this browser I must have its libraries, if I decide to use 
> Gnome I must have even the KDE libraries, because some programs require 
> them, and so on.
> 
> Hardware should be compatible, so I have to buy new ones. (Yes, I wrote 
> to the firms asking for drivers, but in the meanwhile...)
> 
> So I ask you what wrong?
> 
> Why am I failing to switch to Linux?
> 
> Please, pay attention to the fact that I'm asking help,  don't insult 
> me... if you can :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Nino
> 
I can understand your frustration,the reason for it is that Linux is 
orientated to developer/geek/expert and having a programme run correctly
rather than being end-user friendly - meaning - less confusing doco's 
and better installation and less .configs to screw up.

Take a look at these pages,it explains it a lot better

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cups-horror.html

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/luxury-part-deux.html


david