These days, Linux being hard to install is true only in the sense that almost everyone installing it is starting out with something like Win95 already on their machine. That immediately causes problems like setting up a dual boot and partitioning to crop up - and these are problems that are not unique to installing Linux.
If you had two equally intelligent/skilled people, gave one a Debian CD and the other a Win98 CD, and then gave each of them identically equipped new machines with reasonably mainstream hardware and a blank hard drive, I doubt that one would have significantly more trouble than the other in getting up and running. It's what comes after the install that is harder in Linux - there's no doubt about that. But speaking for myself, after a bit of a struggle getting started, it has been well worth the effort. Linux isn't for everyone though - and was never intended to be. Tom -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
