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I haven't tried Ubuntu, but I do have Suse 10
installed. And Suse apparently also has a
custom version of #10 that they plan to release
soon as a potential option for corporate Linux
workstations.

Suse is beautiful, graphically. But it's not
Windows. I decided to start working on VB
in Wine recently and wanted to settle just two things
in Suse first: I wanted an easy, bi-directional
firewall and a CPU temp. monitor before doing
anything else. I still don't have either fully
working. After a few days I realized I was back
into the old Linux trap: editing obscure config. files,
searching online for tidbits of info., pleading
with cranky, childish Linux experts in newsgroups
to tell me what I needed to know.... In short, the
problem that Linux still hasn't solved is that the
vast majority of the software is just not finished
properly and is not documented properly. One always
ends up with compiling directions, tarballs, tedious
commandline solutions, undocumented config.
files....etc.
Then when one asks in the Linux newsgroup,
more often than not the answer is something like,
"Read the man file, Swifty." ...As if that will help.

It's like borrowing a greasemonkey's
car to go to the store to buy bread, only to find
that you'll need to finish an oil change before you
can drive anywhere. And your greasemonkey friend
doesn't understand what the problem is with that.

So I got Ubuntu.

All I've done with it so far is boot from the CD. I was impressed that
it detected all the right hardware and everything worked out of the box.
It doesn't look half as ugly as I remember Red Hat and Suze looking a
few years ago but first impressions are that it still has a way to go.

But I'm interested enough to want to actually install it to a new drive
that I'll now have to get. It was also good to see a few familiar
programs ready to go like Firefox and open office.

What I didn't like was the big promotion of the whole free software
philosophy. I'm not at all against the idea it's just way too much for
an average Windows user to understand. So if this is aimed at mainstream
Windows users it fails right off the bat because it loses them right
there.


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