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nice ;]

The last time I tried to install and use a free software operating system I spent hours doing sudo pico, browsing forums and editing configuration files to get the wireless working. It worked for two weeks and then, suddenly, just died and I gave up.

I suggest that people who have time for things like the link should instead take upon themselves to fix some of the issues that make using free software suck.

(for the record, that was in 2008. While you're at it, please also make a decent debugger, an unified standard for doing GUI stuff and make dev tools that even a dumb Windows user like myself can install)

Try Ubuntu or gNewSense. They simply install - no need to configure anything. The interface is graphical, installing programms is easy - you open a repository (a list of available programms), download them and they install automatically. So it might've been a non-user friendly distribution.

So again - try Ubuntu or better - gNewSense.

as for dev tools, wxDev-C++ is the thing. RAD type of tool, cross platform.

For the record, it was ubuntu on an Acer Aspire.

And isn't gNewSense just a crippled Ubuntu anyway? I saw Stallman speak once and he's a really good speaker, but I think some of the ideas of the FSF are somewhat removed from the daily life of the average user (me).

i'm fed up of all those linux distros

Ubuntu is nice until you want to do something which isn't covered by the limited collection of configuration tools (with a GUI) it provides. Then it becomes what Preacher describes.

It was my very pleasure to go through the havoc that is configuration files as well. It's a pity though, Linux distributions endorse a more organized file system compared to Windows, but in that they unfortunately fail miserably as even the operating system itself voids the principle of organization by sprinkling the configuration files all over the whole file system. Some of them end up at /etc, whilst the others are located inside either various folders or cryptic places.

I don't have anything against Linux though and I think if only it was more organized to suit the design and balance fetish of an utmost perfectionist like myself, I would have been using it right now. In the end, the only reason I stick with Windows is because, pretty much everything works out of the box, and manual manipulation is almost extinct.

4 396 353 bytes for this? Am I missing something?

exactly what I thought, raina...

What Preacher, Decipher, stijn said. Most of the linux distributions require some serious effort during configuring and customizing the system. Something so simple as software installation, may take much MUCH more time than similar task on Windows platform due to unresolved dependencies or corrupted/poorly written configuration scripts.

Lack of good programming tools is also very serious problem. Gnu debugger is easly 15 years behind software used on Windows platform.

I worked as a system administrator for some time in the past, using Slackware and Debian Linux and I wholeheartly agree with Decipher - configuration scheme and placement of configuration files is totally incoherent(similarly there seems to be no unified command parameter naming convention).

Linux is quirky and it's not the system which allows you to get things done. On the other hand it may be even more appealing for some sceners - crappy programming tools may provide quite a challenge ;]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gvw73U_VpU

it's funny. i use ubuntu exclusively (at home) since december and never had to touch a config file by myself. i'm happy with it. if you are not use something else instead, it's that easy :)

Ubuntu seemed doable up until the point where my sound from my usb mics only came through as static. Why are there 3 different audio subsystems, none of which actually work? -p

kaivalya_, ubuntu is good, well tested distro, but sooner or later you encounter problem which cannot be solved by using graphical tools, and that is when the config file hell gets you :P

GbND, because it's not Ubuntu, but Abundu. Abundance of redundant tools and services was always a "feature" in linux. Luckily most of the linux distributions allows you to modify packet list during installation.

Make everything as browser apps => no need for configuration, runs on all platforms => profit.

=> And trust the company which provides those applications? No thanks.

Uh, was this poor excuse for a joke supposed to be funny?

i prefer Windows and with my copy of uTorrent, I also get all my software for free. so it's like Linux minus the configuration hassle, i think you'll all agree.

I want a free operating system and free software. Thus, I use Linux and other UNIXish systems. It's as simple as that. I don't see the configuring as trouble, but as a higher level of control over the system I'm using. Granted, most device drivers do suck, and user interfaces aren't given much thought as for their actual usability.

And for the dev tools... what's wrong with editor+makefiles+gcc? :)