Re: First Linux Experience is not going well!

From: Ruel Smith (NoWay_at_NoWhere.com)
Date: 12/25/04 

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 10:36:27 -0500

Markus Dehmann wrote:

> No. The point is: Linux is hard to administer, but easy to use. So, it's
> okay for business: A system administrator does the hacking and
> administration work and provides the infrastructure for non-hacking
> employees who just have to use Open Office, Firefox, Evolution, Opera, all
> the KDE applications or whatever. And that's really as easy as windows
> applications. Just installing the printer, the network card etc might not
> be easy in any case. So, again, there must be a sysadmin to do that work.
> But that's actually the same with Windows NT.

Windows easier to administrate. You need to hire guys to handle those tasks
too.

I'm not familiar with using Linux in a business environment and I'm not
going to claim that I am. However, administrating my own Linux computer is
far easier to do than my Windows machine. I haven't got the foggiest clue
about the registry, and therefore my administration skills in Windows are
very limited. In Linux, there are wonderful, almost spoken english .rc and
config files that you can manually alter, lots of help on the web on how to
do it, and most of them are in your /home directory. When something goes
haywire, most often I just have to delete the .rc or config file and it
gets rebuilt by the application with default settings. I then just have to
reconfigure the application and it works again, and distros like SuSE and
Mandrake make that rather painless. There is no such magic cure in Windows.
When something goes bad, your best effort is to uninstall it, if it will
let you, and reinstall it. Even then, it doesn't always work. Usually, I
have to manually search all over the HDD for any folder or file associated
with the app, and manually delete it too, before reinstalling.

I'm not an expert at either Linux or Windows, but I'm the guy my friends
calls to fix their Windows machines. I certainly enjoy working in the Linux
environment far more than Windows. I just can't convince my friends to try
out Linux. They just don't know what they're missing out on.

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