>> ...er, yeah. Nice in theory. Not so great in practice. ;-) Between
>> trying to get Linux to work properly, fiddling with CLI tools, and
>> trying to get revision control to play nicely, not to mention the fun
>> and games of communicating with other humans, it's... quite tricky.
> 
> So what problems are you having, which distro, and where are you asking?
> 
> Using openSUSE, there's nothing I had to do to "get Linux to work 
> properly", 11.0 basically just worked for me.

I've got it all straightened out *now*. ;-)

My problem wasn't actually "getting Linux to work", but rather "getting 
Linux to do what I want". But in my experience, Linux package managers 
are often very awkward to use. You know - the whole "I want to install 
this one package, and no I don't want to also upgrade 3,657 other 
packages to a different version".

Weirdly, this kind of thing never seems to happen on Windows. I guess 
because "Windows" is one monolithic block of software, whereas "Linux" 
is several billion tiny pieces, all of which are in a sense optional.

After that, I had all the fun of trying to work out how to operate 
makefiles, where the stuff I want to alter actually is, how to operate 
the version control system, and so forth. Plus getting hold of a human 
over IRC seems to be like getting blood out of a stone. I guess 
everybody is in a different timezone to me?

It's sorted now, it just took rather a lot of effort considering the 
triviallity of what I actually set out to do. ;-)

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