>However, please don't abuse the community by going into hysterics because Linux isn't dead easy.<
There was no abusing of the community in the posting I made. I tried to make it clear that I am anti-windows, and I am sort-of pro-Linux. >As to your assertion that "Linux is chasing away the very people it needs" - that's a fallacy. < I don't think it is. How many copies of Redhat, Suse and the others were sold in the last two years? How many copies of Debian were downloaded by newbies in the last two years? Total those up and call it N. Of those N, how many are running Linux today? I'll bet it is less than N/10, and could be as low as N/100. The point of my post is not to whine and complain about Linux. The point is: 1.) I assume most of the Linux community would like to see Linux be the dominant OS in the world, and think it deserves this. 2.) In order to accomplish this, it will be necessary for most users to switch from Windows to Linux. 3.) If a guy like me (who has installed and operated OS's from Assembly on the Cosmac Elf II, to Basic in ROM on an Ohio Scientific Challenger 4P, to Data General RDOS, to PDP's RT11, to CP/M, FORTH, and DOS and Windows), cannot seem to do the simplest thing in Linux, then Linux (and the doc) is in a form that (1) and (2) will not occur. If the Linux community does not care about (1) and (2), then I think they are heading in the right direction. Once again, let me stress that I think the Linux community is *extremely* polite and helpful, and that Linux is good and there is lots of great doc out there. I'm not attacking anybody or anything. I'm simply trying to say (1), (2), (3) above. -Kevin Stokes
