XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, alt.os.linux.mandrake, comp.os.linux.advocacy   
   XPost: alt.os.linux.redhat   
   From: vallon@tiscali.co.uk   
      
   On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:43:21 -0600, Jøhnny Fävòrítê wrote:   
      
   > Kier wrote:   
   >> Jøhnny Fävòrítê wrote:   
   >>> if you can stand linux, it would make an okay choice.  personally i   
   >>> couldn't.  way too fiddly and difficult.  every little thing   
   >>> required editing a config file somewhere with tortured, impossible   
   >>> syntax.  and all the dependency issues.  bleargh, not for me.   
   >>   
   >> You must have been misinformed by someone. It's by no means that hard.   
   >> I've very rarely had to edit a config file, and even when I have, it   
   >> was pretty straightforward. I'm by no means an expert in such matters.   
   >   
   > i am speaking from personal experience here, not misinformation.  linux   
   > is way, WAY no fun, as far as i'm concerned.   
      
   Which distro were you using? Slackware? If it was Mandrake or SUSE, you   
   shouldn't have had to edit configs much, if at all.   
      
   >   
   > i knew somebody would respond like that, and i've already had this   
   > conversation eighty billion times, so i am now bowing out.   
      
   If that's the case, why post in the first place? No offence, but this *is*   
   a discussion group.   
      
   --   
   Kier   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)