I also hate Linux. Maybe it’s not Linux in particular, maybe I hate all computer systems when it really comes down to it. But this is my list of reasons why:
Unix Skills are Special Skills
Sounds like a marketing brochure for the competition, doesn’t it? Fact of the matter is that right now, I spend entirely too much of my time doing personnel management. If I can put out a requisition to hire somebody and have them working for me in 3 weeks, then it makes my job that much easier.
This has always been a double-edged sword. Linux expects that you know what you are doing, even if it’s a dumb thing to do--it's non-judgemental. Non-Unix systems expect that you will do dumb things and refuses to do them. I still don’t know which one of these is better.
All-Or-Nothing Admin Privileges
You’re either root or you’re not. Sudo and selinux aside, this is the basic model that we’ve always had, installed by default. Anything else is like middleware--yeah, you can connect the dots, but how much time and effort is it going to take?
Project Viability
There are tons of applications out there in the Linux world. Some are very, very good and very, very viable. The Linux kernel, apache, and a couple databases come to mind. That’s easy to point to. But then there is this seedy underworld of code. This is software is pure junk. If I’m not initiated into Freshmeat-foo (ranking, version, vitality, and popularity), then I can’t tell the difference between these two poles of the spectrum. This means that I cannot assess what my level of risk is (both security and project-wise) when I choose a particular piece of software—was it developed professionally with QA standards and security code review or by a 14-year-old in his parents’ basement?
Speed of Development
As an operations guy, I like slow and steady, as long as vulnerabilities get patched. With the speed of development that most viable open-source projects have, it is hard to keep up with all the different places that you can get vulnerability notices from. Usually you get these filtered through the distribution, but then again, you have the same ad-hoc processes. Like “Black Tuesday” or not, it does make sense in a twisted sort of operational mindset.
Who Is Responsible for Linux Security?
As a business, I put a security contact at each level of the “solution stack”. I have a counterpart to the CSO, the business owners, the governance framework, the architecture group, the network engineers, the server engineers, and the application engineers. What is the corresponding structure in the Linux world? Most major distributions have a security team, but when it comes to the applications themselves, it’s hit and miss.
I got into linux years ago through peer pressure. A friend of mine was OBSSESSED with the OS and kept nagging me to use it and CONVERT. He hated Bill Gates And MS. I decided to take some time to explore this OS (4 years) and must conclude that it reminds me of the medieval symbol of a snake swallowing it`s own tail. Linux`s achilles heel lies in the fact that the numbers of distros are too numerous to even count. When does it end. How many distros are enough. It`s a fucking joke. The community claims it`s to beat MS. It will never beat MS this way. It`s like nagging a hot girl to have sex with you when she`s already said no 100 times. All that manpower wasted on creating all the distros could be used to improve the pre-existing software. Especially the libraries, sysutils and core material. Some distros work their asses off on making fancier GUI`s for KDE and GNOME to impress folks and make it more user friendly. That`s like putting a band-aid on a compound fracture. The Linux world needs to and must let go of this idea of beating MS. The `software war` is completely dumb and all the energy of this OS needs to change direction. It needs to embrace its own unique place in the world and stop trying to pander to political and legal type conflicts which it will never win. What ever happened to the love of computing. Linux must take a new direction-mandate and rework the system from the ground up. Ditch 90-95 percent of the distros out there and reconsolidate the resources so that the software stands a chance to survive. Linux is not and never will be like MS. Why the hell would you want it to be. It`s a niche market and should work hard to maintain and improve that tradition. I personally wont ever use it again. It`s not for me and never will be. I`m not into computer science, but I think linux will have its own place in history and have its niche of users and supporters who love it`s complexity and power. I don`t have the time anymore to play with it. I`d rather use MS for my simple needs, like writing this comment. Thanx.
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I must admit that when I first started to use Linux that i was very unsure about using it. My friend get me to try Fedora 6 and it is a rather advanced Linux distro for a newbie. I really didnt like it cause it all seemed to hard, all that compiling and command line seemed really hard. At that point i switched back to windows and forgot about Linux. After about a month or so my friend asked me how i liked using Linux and i told him that it was too hard for me that there are other Linux distros that i could choose to run (i didnt know this at the time i thought they all were the same) and that i might like one of the other ones. So at that point i did some searching around and i found Ubuntu. I liked the way it looked and all the reviews said that it is fairly easy for a windows user to install and operate. Which i found out that was a very true claim. It is completly different i will tell you but i can also tell you that anything that you want to do or install in Ubuntu all you need to do is google it and you will find it. I have tried some other distros and i perfer ubuntu cause it is the easiest to set up, customize, and use. There is a lot of support that you can find in the Ubuntu fourms that can answer any question that you may have. My pc's have never worked more stable or faster than when i made the switch to Ubuntu. People always hate on and discriminate on the different and new. But what people dont realize is that most of the cell phones out on the market run Linux on them and most of the servers out in the net run Linux also. Security wise, Linux is much safer, simply because of the fact that it is open source and that there are literally thousands of eyes watching it and constantly updating it. The visual effects that Linux is capable of is far beyond vista and win 7. What ever you want to customize you can. And with all your visuals, you wont be at a gig of ram like you are with vista, you will be around a average of a low 200 meg. Give it a try if you are really interested in trying something new, but dont give up because it is different, read some forums and do some research to find out which distro is right for you. If you are a die hard windows user but you still wanna try Linux, I suggest you give Ubuntu a try, but like i said, at first it will be difficult cause it is different, but dont let it scare you back to windows so fast. Get it up and running the way you want it to and after you do all that tell me that you hate it.
Its easy to hate... People that proclaim they hate Linux in fact hate it because they hate Windoze first, and hope Linux will provide a messianic salvation from the Orwellian grip that Windoze seems to encroach upon humanity. Linux is organic, ever evolving, like nature itself, a symbol of freedom in a world of corporate profiteering. In Windoze you got spoon-fed while with Linux you have to gather and cook your food, which is stimulating and results in a smooth running system. Im new to Linux (Ubuntu) and Im not a technically minded person but i found it isnt that hard tweaking a Linux system, and got my old Acer Extensa 5220 laptop running like a dream, while the quad-core PC is just as good, performing better and more stable than Windoze ever has. Im so grateful to those people who put their time and heart and soul into developing free operating systems because the world needs it. Your hate is unfounded and indulgent. Life is Love.
I never knew people hated Linux so passionately. "why won't it just work, boo hoo" "I hate Linux because it's hard, boo hoo" "I like to hit next and OK 7 times instead of real computing, boo hoo."
Listen, go install a service pack and run some Spyware detectors. If you were smart you'd get the stuff to work without issues. It works for me, and I don't have a CS degree (useless). Linux is great, because it gives you freedom to do whatever the heck you want. What do you ever learn when using MS....how to hit "next"? I accidentally learn something everyday when using Linux. It makes you smarter, and that's how computing should be. You know the internet is run by Server 2003, IIS and Exchange, right? lmao.
It's a common thought that users who use Linux are using it because of some ideological belief (freedom and similar stuff).
It's hard to imagine, but there are also users that went to Linux because they were frustrated with Windows. I was one of them.
I tried Ubuntu, first as a dual boot system. 2 weeks from that point I removed the windows completely and for a year and a half I never looked back. I don't give a damn about free software in a sense that I'll download and crack any software that I want to use. It's just that I liked the experience on Ubuntu more.
Of course there were problems in the beginning, I didn't know how some things are functioning, but I also had problems when I first time used windows. Soon after installation, I would mess up everything on windows, then after a while I learned some things that stopped me from doing errors which led to that. The same is with Linux.
Soon after I installed Ubuntu on my machine, I asked some of my friends to try. Some liked it and use it now, some didn't and got back to windows. Which is OK, people are different.
That's the whole point. Don't hate Linux, just don't use it, nobody is pressuring you.
As for me I know that I will probably never use windows on any of my computers/laptops, but I don't hate Windows because of that.
I've spent 2 weeks trying to write poems but I cannot even say "Hello World"! What's a clumsy, boring and unfriendly stuff! No latin letters, no sense, no manuals! Who is responsible for the language rules? One day I also tried Hebrew and Arabian. No results.
I prepared a pretty thorough response to Michael but this damn website is refusing to accept it without specifying any error message.
Anyone who is interested in my response is welcomed to read it here: http://forumgeek.net/thread/104
it still sucks. I am not a newbie, I know how to install programs with .bin, .rpm, whatever, tweak config files and the like, and I tell you... the average user should not need to do this to get a working linux system. You know how ridiculous it is to install a graphic driver?... At least in windows all you do is click the .exe and your good to go, but not for linux; you need to unextract files, or .run, find all ur dependencies, which may require more dependencies. Ugh... you know, if you have to read a "how to install" document thats like 5 pages long, then there's something wrong. I hate linux!
Wow, I must be some kind of super-genius or something. I've been using Linux for years, and I've never found to be particularly difficult. You guys that are bashing it or having trouble with it should really just try a little bit harder. Linux really is fast, more efficient, more secure, more reliable, more customizable, and much more fun than any Windows I've ever used! I use a distribution called Slackware. They just came out with a new version, so maybe you guys should try that
Piece! (^_^)
--Tim
that I would hate OS but I hate Linux. I put 1 month of my time, 3 computers. Last one I buy special for linux and linux fail me on every step. You name it. I experience instability, non compatibility, hard to understand logic.. Just about everything. It is free but I do not want it if somebody pay to me for using it. And on top of everything their community is hostile. Never again, never.
Why waste time hating one operating system or another, simply install the one that works as your primary OS and dual boot the other if you want to invest the time in researching the proper drivers. Otherwise there are plenty of applications that work on either platform and put the power of those applications at your fingertips or there is even the option of running a virtual desktop.
I have spent over 10 days, about 4 hours per day trying to figure out how to install Ubuntu on my HP Pavilion ZD8000 laptop and I cannot do it no matter what I do. Ive used 2 different versions downloaded and burned 3 times each. I've been to every message board and googled every thing I can and the damn thing will not install. The best I get is several hours worth of a black screen that says unable to read page, block xxxxxxx sb_bread failed rendering etc etc etc.
I have a degree in CS and several MS certifications so it really should not be this difficult for me. This isn't even a dual boot configuration. I just want Ubuntu on this machine, nothing else. But it won't go. VERY VERY user unfriendly. Oh, and I tried the alternate install cd also. ditto.
I'm sick of it. If you cannot start up with it and use it productively in a reasonable amount of time, then it is not worth using.
Damn dog, you must really suck monkeyballs for not being able to install Ubuntu on a bloody laptop. Please consider a career that doesn't require wits.
Here, try this:
http://www.iomonkey.com/linux/hp_zd8000/
Damn dog, you must really suck monkeyballs for not being able to install Ubuntu on a bloody laptop. Please consider a career that doesn't require wits.
Here, try this:
http://www.iomonkey.com/linux/hp_zd8000/
Linux is about as friendly as a scrap-yard guard dog.
I am (was) an assembler programmer in an OS/390, z/OS, utilising a character intensive green-screen “user friendly” interface system. But dear oh lor, at least there was consistency and logic behind it all.
It appears to me that people who develop Linux believe that they are doing the world a favour. Go to almost any Linux site and ask a question, and the majority of the responses are along the lines of “RTFM”, and “What a stupid Noobie question”.
Linux (and the millions of versions that are out there) are its own worst enemies.
When I was a systems programmer, I was paid a S**t load of money to protect the business people from the hideous implementation and version control systems that OS/390 had. However, it seems that Linux developers expect users and business people to understand the likes of yast and other dreadful nonsense just to install a silly little program.
I am no longer a systems programmer.
I really don’t give a flying f**k about how clever I will appear if I know how to assemble and boot a new nucleus (or whatever you fisher-price developers call it).
I want to install programs without having to know the internals of the opsys.
I want to have a bit of consistency on how programs work (if you hate windows then ask if you can borrow IBM’s SAA manuals for a bit of a clue).
I do not want to have generators of hieroglyphic systems deride my requests for help whenever I cannot decode appalling documentation and dreadful systems design.
... and yes I think Vista is a dreadful lump of Draconian Rights Managed (DRM) irrelevancy to – so I am not just having a pop at Linux here.
I really wish Linux was better, but I suspect that it never will be.
It doesn't seem to me that you really took the time (or were given the opportunity) to get some level of training.
If I sat in front of a Cisco router with no prior experience or training, I would probably give up in failure as well. As with most technology now it is imperative to gain some level of knowledge before you begin to use it effectively. Because Microsoft has dumbed down the Windows GUI or API doesn't make it a superior operating system, rather it is an OS that is easier for an inexperienced user to start using.
I've too have tried Red Hat, SuSE and PCLinuxOs, and they don't work for me. I am patient, persistent and well able to read and follow instructions. Nothing behaved as directed or expected. My system seemed much slower. Many of my essential devices go undetected and unresponsive. I found Linux consistently difficult and frustrating.
My experiences with Linux are very similar. All I wanted to do was share files with a windows network. Its so simple I though wow, a perfect opportunity to give Linux another try. Short of getting the OS installed and booting I met with failure at every turn. First trying to install Samba, downloaded to source ok, but didn't have a compiler. Then trying to find a binary of a compiler. Most available for dl are in source form. (What do I need with the source code of a compiler if I have none?) Then after hours of searching when I found a binary compiler I was missing dependencies, and those dependencies were missing dependencies.
Then 6 hours later (not including original day+ download) I was finally able to get Samba installed and running, but was never able to get it configured or working properly. I could see the shares but not access them.
Now I consider myself failry competent in IT and the inner workings of networking but Linux and its pieces are just too disconnected.
I will take the M$ right-click > properties > sharing any day of the week.
I was really surprised that you were able to use all the distros or at least give them a try. But my assumption is that since you found this stuff really difficult and frustrating to use, maybe you like the simplicity of Windows. Every time running scandisk on the system or doing a defrag or formatting the system. Those are very easy activities very well documented in colored Microsoft books. Excellent documentation! Kudoz to Microsft!.
Somehow I can't seem to get it secure, all the time I have to keep Norton antivirus running which slows the speed. Maybe thats also documented so you love it.
Linux takes patience and if you really give it a honest try once it works like a charm. Speed is one thing Windows can never ever give U. You are one of those people who will complain about CO emissions but wont care to change your habbits. Linux is not the problem it's you and your way of living.
"Somehow I can't seem to get it secure, all the time I have to keep Norton antivirus running which slows the speed. Maybe thats also documented so you love it."
It's YOUR fault for using a crap software like Norton. Next time try NOD32.
"Linux takes patience and if you really give it a honest try once it works like a charm. Speed is one thing Windows can never ever give U."
Linux may be a bit faster, but that doesn't make up for all the time I'm forced to spend on it. It simply isn't worth the time and effort of having to learn code, then writing code and re-compiling crap just to install or configure stuff, and then having to waste days troubleshooting problems and testing code.
"Linux is not the problem it's you and your way of living. "
I'm sorry, but a OS shouldn't force me to learn code and write archaic DOS-like commands. If your idea of a superior and usable OS is one that forces you to go back to the 70's, then the problem isn't us. It's Linux and you Linux fanboys who aren't willing to accept that your beloved OS has flaws and shortcomings that should be corrected.
>I'm sorry, but a OS shouldn't force me to learn
>code and write archaic DOS-like commands.
I had this debate with a guy six months ago who would constantly tell me Windows is the "big boy" operating system and Linux is a toy. I told him, just now I had this gigantic web site directory tree, it is about 6 gigs. I wanted to create a web development staging area, basically I wanted to take the directory structure of my web site tree, and duplicate the directories only to another spot for staging, but not copy any of the files.
His first comment was, "Why would a web site be 6G? That is way too huge!" Hmm ... So much for Windows being the "big boy" operating system.
So, I told him I did this from the linux command line ...
find . -type d -exec mkdir otherpath/{} \;That means start in the current directory, and for every thing you find that is type (d)irectory, execute "make directory" with a path of otherpath/{thing you found}.
It took me 30 seconds, maybe.
Then I thought to myself ... in Windows, how would you even DO this?? His solution was to copy the entire tree and then delete the files. To delete the files, you have to do a search, then sort by type so the directories are at the top and you don't delete them, then highlight all the 10000+ files and delete only those and not the directories. With 6G of files, it might just croak. When I tried something similar on a Windows box it was struggling quite a bit.
30 seconds on linux.
Linux doesn't FORCE you to learn the command line. You can do this in a GUI. Ubuntu in particular has done a great job moving things to the GUI. But if you invest a little time to learn these little commands, if you understand that there is great power in stringing little commands together to do bigger tasks, you will be hooked.
The command line is not pretty. But it is incredibly powerful. I think of what I want to do, and then do it, without a GUI getting in my way.
Finally, if you haven't tried Ubuntu in the last couple years, the pace of improvement is incredible. I've been running full 64-bit for over a year. 64-bit Windows? That is still a world of hurt.
Seriously? Your windows-using admin friend needs help. This is as easy to do in Windows as in Linux. Or possibly easier.
copy c:\inetpub\ c:\[destination]\ /T /E
The best part is that it's right there in the online documentation. Just type "copy /?" and you get it in plain English. You don't have to search the web for esoteric documentation that Linux never seems to have built-in, or take abuse from know-it-alls when you ask for help.
Best to you.
Is ridiculous what are you trying to compare. First of all, a copy of directory structure is rarely needed. In my 20 years as IT and programmer i needed it only once.
And they are 20 years of IT staff, not 20 years of Office user.
Anyway i wrote a small piece of code, compiled it in vb6, and achieved that damn task.
I don't even have any more that piece of code in source, nor in binary... you know why? Because i'm sure i'll not need it again. And if i'll be again so unlucky to have again that idiot task, then i'll rewrite that small piece of code (which is very simple with a simple recursive procedure)
To give you a damn idiot example: If MS want to add the above feature at cost of complicating heavily "coping" procedure, then my answer is: No, thx... i don't need it! Because i can't sacrifice an easy and intuitive procedure (or syntax) for a task that repeats itself once in 20 years.
Linux admins are not smarter than their Windows counterparts. But Windows users are much smarter than linux ones. You know why? Because linux have no users my friend... it has only admins :(
P.S.
I'll not write here the myriad of stupidities that you will always have to handle in linux. Most of them because linux has a terrific lack of standardization.
Tried Linux for first time at my home's pc a year ago. It sure looks hard in the beginning with all the dependencies and binaries and source codes... still is if you ask me. After 1 year though using both Linux and Windows on my PC i learned one thing. In a world moving around Windows (which actually cost money), a free software as Ubuntu is more user friendly maybe not in terms of source files, but in terms of community, smaller vulnerability, constant upgrading and patching, giving extra life to your old pcs.
Giving more money to Microsoft to create major failures like vista will only make the world go more round them. Think what would happen and how Linux would be far better than it already is if more people did the obvious thing... Tried the free stuff first. That would both make it cheaper for windows users (it 's a free economy, right?) and would make Microsoft develop a really better software than the crap Vista is...
I am sick of Linux and linux people. It really makes me sick, the whole Linux world, in my stomach and in my head.
It is fantastic that Linux exists as a free of cost alternative, but that's all. It is unusable for anyone with average Windows experience and average use for home and job without personal interest in computer science.
The worst part of Linux is the extreme and absurd difficulty and the nightmare that the Linux community of idiot nerds and losers is.
I have asked occasionally in Windows forums for 12 years since I started using internet on a daiy basis. I never got a bad response and usually got my problems solved in an environment of respect and open cooperation.
But everytime I have asked something in a Linux forum, one way or the other I have being insulted, offended, ridiculized, needed to bear absurd and very poorly described instruction which mostly show off how clever the guy is but only leads you to despair when you try to follow the steps and always find that something is bad explained and you are blocked. If you tell that it didn't work they will insult you or assume that you are a dumb one, but never that they did it wrong.
Absolutely desperating when you see the same once after another in every forum.
On top of it, I don't agree that Linux has fgood software for everything. Linux has little and extremely poor software in comparison to WIndows. You can do things, you can get used to it, but it is very very very bad and poor and ugly software which has no evolution and really ugly design.
Finally, the worst of all is that these big mouths insult Windows and Windows users and state that Linux is like a brotherhood of men where we help each pther freely. Bullshit. Linux people make money and live out of Linux one way or the other. Linux is business same as Windows. There is free and non-free stuff. And while they say that nobody should be a pirate all of them use illegal software in their computers. ALL OF THEM. Think of codecs for instance.
It is all a gigantic piece of shit where the only real advantage is that it is for free. Advantage for most people, because Microsoft and any software firms have all the right to live out of their work same as anyone else. What if everything was for free in the World? What if someone gave houses or cars for free? WOuld the car and house builders criminals or evil for that? Or maybe the evil and criminal would be the ones who gave it for free? We all have the right to work and be paid for our work regardless of bored nerds offering for free what others did legally for a way of surviving.
Yeh i hate linux tooooo
Just give me one anwer if linux had a price tag of 300$ or above would you buy it , I know the answer , and its no .Linux if free and thats it!!!!.
I had fedora installed for my studies purposes, oh boy it had me pull my hairs out. the things you do in windows without even noticing them take a day to configure and run in linux, man you cannot listen to mp3 songs without that crap source code installation packages
The GUI is badly made, surfing the web is crap, you constantly have to resize the font , windows does it for you
the shit community who think that they are going to end Microsoft are 101% wrong, the millions of distos that they have produced are backfiring.
Now i know why Microsoft rules
ALL this said the server capabilities of Linux are good in all respect than Microsoft, recently i worked on a Asterisk in Linux and that worked really well and secure, i say good not because it was easy to install and configure but its windows counterpart was about 10,000$, also i not had to install things that you normally have on a PC such as multimedia ,games ,internet surfing softwares and continues tweaking .So making that much effort on Linux was worth it
FOR PCs my advice GO FOR WINDOWS
>the things you do in windows without even
>noticing them take a day to configure and
>run in linux, man you cannot listen to mp3
>songs without that crap source code
>installation packages
To listen to mp3s in linux, you need the codec that decodes mp3s. Most distributions offer this as an already-compiled file, downloadable using their easy point-and-click integrated packaging system.
They don't include the codecs with the base system because they want to support standards that are completely open, and mp3 is patented.
Nobody has to grab source code to listen to an mp3 on linux. A decoder program, yes. Source code, no.
I hate Linux too!
What a terrible, absolutely NOT a user-friendly OS!
Terrible!
I had to port some program from a Windows platform to Linux so I was trying to get a decent GUI editor, which would resemble a Windows style ditor, so I chose NEdit.
You think there is such a common for Windows thing like InstallShield or similar concept of installing and uninstalling application? No! You have to download a file, unzip/untar.ungzip...whatever, (why there are som many gziptarov???) Why can't they use just normal zip?!
And then you need to copy some files to some folders like usr/local/bins manually and attempt to run it only to find out there is file libXp.so.6 is missing, and it is nowhere in the install package or on your system. So you have to google to find out what the heck that file is and where to get! etc...
Instead of developing code I have to go through all this hasle. Terrible!
I am not a script-parser, or "vim"-addict! I don't care if I can not send an e-mail from the console by pressing several key combinations, as those loyal Linux users claims
I believe that OS must be as user-friendly as possible!
LINUX MUST DIE!!!
"I believe that OS must be as user-friendly as possible!"
I like Linux b/c it makes it easier for me to hack into stupid peoples Windows boxes.
P.S. U r a freakin' retard
Although its a given that linux is its own worst enemy, linux does not deserve the bashing it is getting now. I think the fact that linux has so many ins and outs makes it hard for the average user, but this is not always the case.
I have been using Mandriva Linux sice 10.0, nd I must say it is as user friendly as windows and as powerful as any linux distro. Most ppl who install linux may not choose distros carefully, they each have their strengths.
The only problem I have had with linux, is playing DVDs, and thats because of the MPAA, and is easily fixed by downloading libdvdcss
"You think there is such a common for Windows thing like InstallShield or similar concept of installing and uninstalling application? No! You have to download a file, ge unzip/untar.ungzip...whatever, (why there are som many gziptarov???) Why can't they use just normal zip?!"
This is usally done, because it is crososplatform, and would work on any linux distro. However most distros now include some sort of package management software, which makes software installation/uninstall as simple as search and click.
"And then you need to copy some files to some folders like usr/local/bins manually and attempt to run it only to find out there is file libXp.so.6 is missing, and it is nowhere in the install package or on your system. So you"
Most package managers(Ubuntu, Mandriva all have one), installs the program and downloads all dependencies.
I think the fact that there are so many linux distros, and so many different ways to do things on linux makes it a challenge to do many things, but things are chainging now (Change You can Belive In, lol), and there are very user friendly distros out there.
As for the bad support i think it is kind of hard to blame the contributors. If you were to explain as if they were a newb, and they are a pro then it comes off as insulting their intelligence. Otherwise its hard to understand the instruction, or they skip certain steps cause they assume you understand.
Maybe I am biased, I am computer savvy, but I think the problem with most ppl's experience with linux, is that they expect it to operate like windows, its just a better the devil you know than the one you don't situation.
I don't know which version of Linux you have used, but i know Mandriva is a great distro, and thats putting it lightly. I would download the DVD version, which would include most of the codecs and everything else you needs, and the package manager will handle most of the software you may need.
Other than Mandriva, Suse,Ubuntu,Linspire,Fedora are also great linux distro with good user interfaces.
Oh and linux is not the best OS for games, other than Games or maybe video editing, linux rocks.
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