Installing Linux - not so easy…

This guy has it right. He’s got a grasp on the difficulty of Linux that still escapes many. Wait, no, nobody actually disbelieves that Linux is hard, but this guy is definitely in touch with reality.

His article is from a long time ago (back in 2001) but it’s as timely as ever. It’s an example of how most first-installs of Linux go: install slowly, get the configurations wrong, install again immediately after the first time, get things mostly correct, go crazy looking at a command prompt, switch back to Windows.

It’s becoming a very common story. My advice to anyone who feels this is familiar is this: give up when you have to, but try again soon. At least try the next version of the distribution you tried - things always get a little better with each release.

One of these days we’ll have a version of Linux that’s as easy to use as MacOSX, until then we’ll take the free stuff at it’s full cost.