...the Devil! Recently, I performed a clean install of Windows
7. Simply slipped in the disk and followed the prompts. It was
easy enough. After a day or two I had installed all of my
software and downloaded my backed up data. Feeling
confident, I thought I would try installing Linux in a
Virtualbox. Sounded like fun, really. Even though I didn't
need to. Virtualbox was easy enough to install and eventually
understand. But installing Linux Mint is a tale of woe and
frustration. I've now tried to install it eight times and have
failed, you guessed it, eight times! First I ran into the "kernel"
problem. Fixed that by getting rid of the Tara edition and
installed Cinnamon. (I don't like the name Tara anyway. I
know a girl named Tara and I don't like her either!).
Cinnamon (I'm picturing a stripper) seemed to go OK until I
discovered "software rendering mode". So I watched a couple
of videos on Youtube, which solved nothing. No, No wait,
there's more! The keyboard and mouse freeze at the drop of a
hat, I can't type numbers because the numlock key turns itself
on, the program tries to reinstall itself each time I try to fire it
up, and all of my settings are returned to minimums! I'm also
counting the ridiculous number of times that I have to enter
my password and the Handbook For Beginners that contains
200 pages! 200!!! For beginners???? From the outside it
looks as though all the cute names like Mint, Red Hat, Fedora
and the like simply serve to lure us through the gates of, well,
you know, that place where the Devil lives. That's where
arcane terms like GRUB, SUDO, APT and others live
Well, my friends, I'm done with my rant for tonight. Let me
ask a poignant question, though, to finish this off.
Is there any Real World answer as to why Linux even exists?
Does it improve lives in a meaingful way? What are the advantages over Windows or Mac OS?
7. Simply slipped in the disk and followed the prompts. It was
easy enough. After a day or two I had installed all of my
software and downloaded my backed up data. Feeling
confident, I thought I would try installing Linux in a
Virtualbox. Sounded like fun, really. Even though I didn't
need to. Virtualbox was easy enough to install and eventually
understand. But installing Linux Mint is a tale of woe and
frustration. I've now tried to install it eight times and have
failed, you guessed it, eight times! First I ran into the "kernel"
problem. Fixed that by getting rid of the Tara edition and
installed Cinnamon. (I don't like the name Tara anyway. I
know a girl named Tara and I don't like her either!).
Cinnamon (I'm picturing a stripper) seemed to go OK until I
discovered "software rendering mode". So I watched a couple
of videos on Youtube, which solved nothing. No, No wait,
there's more! The keyboard and mouse freeze at the drop of a
hat, I can't type numbers because the numlock key turns itself
on, the program tries to reinstall itself each time I try to fire it
up, and all of my settings are returned to minimums! I'm also
counting the ridiculous number of times that I have to enter
my password and the Handbook For Beginners that contains
200 pages! 200!!! For beginners???? From the outside it
looks as though all the cute names like Mint, Red Hat, Fedora
and the like simply serve to lure us through the gates of, well,
you know, that place where the Devil lives. That's where
arcane terms like GRUB, SUDO, APT and others live
Well, my friends, I'm done with my rant for tonight. Let me
ask a poignant question, though, to finish this off.
Is there any Real World answer as to why Linux even exists?
Does it improve lives in a meaingful way? What are the advantages over Windows or Mac OS?