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--- Mark Knecht  wrote:
> On 6/20/06, carmen <_@whats-your.name> wrote:

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> >

> > yes, the situation is pretty bad.. i even had to

> switch my mom back to winXP from Gnome, since she

> complained about her brand new 2ghz sempron being

> 'too slow'...

> >

>

> Boy, I understand that situation. I've finally

> managed to get DRI

> working on my wife's 32-bit machine with an Intel

> chipset with

> built-in VGA, but I can't seem to get DRI working on

> my AMD64 with a

> PCI-Express ATI card, nor on my son's old machine

> with  an older

> off-beat card. (No suprise there I suppose...)

>

> I was talking to a guy I saw reading Linux Journal

> in a coffee shop

> this afternoon. We both agreed that Linux's major

> problem for the

> average user is not the way it operates but the

> problems of

> configuring it. Once set up it's great. The path to

> get it set up,

> while hugely better than a few years ago, is just

> way beyond what

> anyone should have to do.

Some setup challanges really suck. I've been doing my

best to be a hardcore Linux user for several years but

it's hard to do because I spend to much time

administrating. I'm about to give up and dive deeper

into the mess by taking some online C programming

classes. I figure spending $400 per class will piss me

off so much that I'll actually learn something.
Is Windows any better? I've gotta setup a Windows box

during the July 4th holiday. It would be great if the

stupid thing threw me for a lope and I couldn't finish

the job before leaving for home. lol
Ron
> Cheers,

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> Mark

> 

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