Here hear!
Great post.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:23:36PM -0400, Trevor Smith wrote:
> On February 20, 2004 12:43 pm, Alexander H.M. Ruoff wrote:
> > That's sound strange because it took me about 1 hour to install FC1 on
> > my Laptop and I was basically new to Linux (had FC1 on my desktop at
>
> I know, it does sound strange, but the reason reveals a good lesson about
> linux and computers in general.
>
> I too have found that the installation for linux is DEAD simple and I've done
> it many times over the years, mostly with Red Hat, but also with a few other
> distros. For at least a few years, maybe more, it's been at least as easy to
> install Linux as it is to install Windows.
>
> HOWEVER, when I tried to get FC1 running I ran into a strange problem: my NIC
> would not work. It worked fine in Win2k and, as far as I remember, it worked
> fine in OS/2 and up to at least RH7.x.
>
> What was the problem? I'll never know. I eventually bought a new NIC and boom!
> things started working. Maybe it was old corroded contacts, maybe it was a
> fouled up driver, who knows? It seemed incomprehensible that it worked in
> Windows, but was just dead in linux. Which made finishing the install pretty
> hard since my NIC was my connection to my ADSL "modem" and without it I had
> no 'net connection and had to keep booting to Windows, posting messages,
> reading answers, booting to linux, trying the suggestions, copying the
> results, booting to windows, etc... It was a MASSIVE pain and no one anywhere
> could figure out what was wrong.
>
> In fact, it was just out of desperation (and since they are so cheap) that,
> almost a week into the attempted install I bought a new NIC. I had no real
> hope that this would fix anything but I had nothing to lose at that point.
> Luckily it did solve the problem.
>
> The moral is though, you can NOT predict what will go wrong with computers,
> nor why it will. Expecting that things will go off without a hitch -- even
> when they have done so for years -- is foolish.
>
> So, am I eager to try compiling the entire KDE desktop environment when I've
> never compiled anything over a few hundred lines of code, which I've written
> myself? DEFINITELY NOT! The potential for something going wrong is infinitely
> beyond what I could hope to cope with, as would be the case for any
> non-super-user.
>
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