On 28 February 2013 14:21, Martin McCormick <mar...@x.it.okstate.edu> wrote: > There was once a fellow on a list I belong to whose postings > were one tale of woe after another...
Yes, this whole thread/tale is reminding me of when I first installed a Linux system (SuSE 6.2, back in 1999). It took about 5 or 6 hours as I had to refer to a very large manual (I always liked that SuSE shipped with a very good and very large manual back in those days). I wasn't a computer user at all (I'd just bought a computer, didn't want Windows on it, so was trying this cool 'Linux' thing out - I'd used my friend's Windows 95 machine a few times, but that was about it for 'computer knowledge'. (The book I think was removed from the boxset when SuSE became just so easy to install.) After getting stuck within the installation at 'mount points' (I seem to remember after reading the manual that I created about 10 partitions(!) and had seperate partitions for /, /home, /usr, /usr/local, /boot, /opt, /var and everything else) I ended up with a desktop running KDE 1.1. With zero (or very very little) computing knowledge/experience at all. I don't understand why Mr. Filipak has not downloaded an iso (my recommendation would be Linux Mint, either Cinnamon or MATE would be fine), burnt that image to a disc, put that disc in his DVD drive and installed (or at least run a live session) a Linux system. There seems to be a lot of complaints but no specific problems. On 25 February 2013 23:35, Mark Filipak <markfilipak.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > Are you a fan of Shakespeare tragedies? I think Linux is a good subject. > It's so hard to comment constructively without seeming to bitch. It's a > tragedy. No, it's not. It really isn't. Please, for your own sake, go to Linux Mint's site, grab an iso and try that installation. 99% of hardware is fully supported with Mint - at least try that. If something goes wrong then tell us the specifics. http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php Atb, H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caerryqircn6coqm_nzstjzatdc-u8wxvoacq0k4-t3xn47u...@mail.gmail.com
