ABOUT TO GIVE UP!!!!!... Spend more time!
I vote Yes because as you, I found Linux sometimes Frustating, but the more I learn, I realize the little control i have over my old OS (win). Win was always my deafult plataform, I tested OS/2 sometimes when de version 3.0 make a great impact and at one moment several distros of linux (one which are nine CD and already are using as decoration on my library) even knoppix 3.2 or 3.3, but never change my main OS (excep of course new upgrades of Win :roll: ).
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1) if you download a program you simply install it and it does what it says, you don't have to do 4 hours of research to try to figure out how to install it by typing some b*llshit to god knows where. just click and install.
2)then once installed you just click on it an viola you can actually run that program!! amazing!
3)you don't have to go to college to learn how to do anything as it is all pretty self explanitory.
1- with the sistem APT-GET/DPKG & Klik it's really easy get software comparing with other distros. (Heck even Win didn't have a hell of database for software you'll need)
2- it's the same (unless for me)
3- Something I really apreciated (and sometimes despise for the large of the files) is the READMEs and DOCs you find on the programs, one can download for linux.
Like the people on the post says learn the 'tricks', 'quirks' of a OS take time, Windows to me is very simple but for my father or girlfriend that are currently taking classes to learn about Windows itself, WWW and Word processing, one discovers that is not that easy...so why is so easy? Because i always used it ... school, home. work...
At the end of the last year very tired with the patchs from Windows for security I tested again Knoppix 3.7. Frustated? Yes. Confused? Of course. Lost? Like my father looking for the mouse cursor. I have already decided give it a valid try which of course let me with a system on my computer with I've to admited didn't know really how it works (hey i do things easily now but every day reading info on Linux, is new info that :oops: I didn't know). If you give it a serious try, I tell you for experience that you'll find a great and customize OS.
If you make questions (that already not mentioned on older posts and you cand find yourself) like UnderScore there is a bunch of people on this forum that will make you ask yourself...Is this a forum or a support system. I read this forum for new info and once or twice i go to old posts and discovers great tricks or speedups for my system.
The time you think is lost because of the reading is time you'll recover quicky, why? It's simple, for me learning a tiny bit here a tiny bit there helped me to understand other things that at first when i read them make me yell and like i posted one time kill the people telling me is easy :wink: . I'm still new on Linux end every mean of the word but with patience, time to read and help for this forum I've got the system i like.
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Don't give up!