Linux Visibility on Microsoft Network

[Mark Knecht]

Wesa, Richard (GE Consumer & Industrial) wrote:
> I would like to thank everyone who has given me their time to provide help with this problem.
> I am 59 years old and have only so much time left. I am not going to spend the rest of my life 
> trying to make a Linux Server work on a Microsoft network. It's not worth it.
> I'll suffer with (Bill Gates) until my time is done.
> Thanks again for trying.
> Richard Wesa
> 

Richard,
    I hear you...

    This is, I think, another example of what's wrong with Linux in 
general. It's not a comment about the folks on this list at all. They're 
all great and very helpful.

    Linux is still an operating system that is best left to zealots that 
really want to learn it and invest huge amounts of time to become 
experts. Without the likes of Rick, Bob and others here I wouldn't be 
able to use it at all. It's not user friendly - far from it. I think the 
whole 'Samba talk to Windows' area is a particularly tough one. I never 
made it work 'right'. Some of it works, so I'm not stranded, but it 
isn't worth my time to go further. M$ doesn't make it easy, not that 
they have any reason to...

    I recently removed all traces of Linux from my small home recording 
studio after 1 year of trying to make it stable. Audio stuff that was 
working started failing with new kernels. I couldn't mess with it. I 
couldn't afford to spend the time. Quality control is low in many areas 
of Linux software releases. I cannot complain much as I don't have to 
pay for it except in the use of my time, but that won't put bread on the 
table of some Linux developer so things don't change much.

    I still use Linux religiously for email, not because the clients are 
better than Outlook, but simply to avoid viruses. I am running Linux 
here at work. It works, but it's a big struggle in a windows world.

    I hear you. I hope you won't leave, but don't try to make it do what 
isn't easy for you at your skill level. It isn't worth the time unless 
you have the need.

- Mark