Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> (And even Linux isn't that hard to work these days.
> Damn hard to set up, but not that hard to operate once you eventually
> get it working.)

hmm, what have you been running?  Linux from Scratch?

Seriously, I've installed Ubuntu 7.10 these days and it starts from a Live-CD,
where you can browse the web while it installs to disk.  The only interventions
it asked were to choose the language from a dropdown, the timezone from a
graphical world map and either choose to eat up all disk in a single partition
or do an assisted partitioning.  3 simple choices, all the rest automated.  All
hardware (pretty standard stuff) correctly detected and set up with reasonable
defaults.

Play some file in a media player and if it doesn't recognize the format, Ubuntu
will offer to download a suitable codec.  If you run a nVidia card, it'll offer
to download and install the official nvidia proprietary driver so that you can
run the composite window manager in all flash bang.

Only thing I needed to know was how to make the ADSL connection:  Help browser
says you have to run pppoeconf from the command-line and provide it with user
login and password for your provider.

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