--- Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 6/20/06, carmen <_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > yes, the situation is pretty bad.. i even had to > switch my mom back to winXP from Gnome, since she > complained about her brand new 2ghz sempron being > 'too slow'... > > > > Boy, I understand that situation. I've finally > managed to get DRI > working on my wife's 32-bit machine with an Intel > chipset with > built-in VGA, but I can't seem to get DRI working on > my AMD64 with a > PCI-Express ATI card, nor on my son's old machine > with an older > off-beat card. (No suprise there I suppose...) > > I was talking to a guy I saw reading Linux Journal > in a coffee shop > this afternoon. We both agreed that Linux's major > problem for the > average user is not the way it operates but the > problems of > configuring it. Once set up it's great. The path to > get it set up, > while hugely better than a few years ago, is just > way beyond what > anyone should have to do. Some setup challanges really suck. I've been doing my best to be a hardcore Linux user for several years but it's hard to do because I spend to much time administrating. I'm about to give up and dive deeper into the mess by taking some online C programming classes. I figure spending $400 per class will piss me off so much that I'll actually learn something. Is Windows any better? I've gotta setup a Windows box during the July 4th holiday. It would be great if the stupid thing threw me for a lope and I couldn't finish the job before leaving for home. lol Ron > Cheers, > Mark > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
