Is Linux always so frustating^

[Dave Smith]

There's a learning curve that you just have to stick with if you want
the advantages of OpenSource software. 

Dave

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 12:16, 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
> 
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