Jim Henderson wrote:
> You keep talking about "headaches".  I've been using it for 12 years, and 
> most of that time no headaches at all.

	Let's be realistic: Linux could be a huge headache, especially for one
who's not very computer-savvy.

	Especially only a few years ago. Back in 2003, most Linux distributions
would not automatically get 3-D working on my card. A few had problems
with sound as well (my chip is on the motherboard, and is not an obscure
one).

	Then there's the headache of installing software. If your binary
repository doesn't have it, you have to compile it. And sometimes your
distro will put libraries in a place that the source code doesn't know
about. That's already way too much for even sophisticated users who've
never dealt with compiling with source code.

	And then learning how to use Linux can be a pain. I'll admit that stuff
like Ubuntu really does make life a *lot* easier for new users, but I
bet you still need to do command line stuff occasionally. And as much as
I like it, it really is a mess. I grew up on DOS, so it wasn't a big
pain for me.

	I'm sure there are other annoyances if I actually sat and tried to
think about them.
	

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