first off, it is way more customizable than windows or os x. i love the multiple workspaces option, and i don’t see why it isn’t seemingly integrated into windows and os x, but it is alright to live without. i also do agree though that it is difficult to learn how to use linux, but if you like doing that type of thing (like i do) then linux is awesome. there are a few problems with linux, however, they don’t happen randomly. if your computer freezes, it always will freeze in whatever you did to get your computer at that state. one thing that i noticed with my computer is that it doesn’t have openGL (i’m pretty sure that was it) and i’m gonna take care of that. but certain apps which use openGL will do the weirdest things and if you try interacting with the app, it will crash which i think is funny to see because it is so different from a windows crash–your screen will show colorful static that changes like once every half second for like 5 times and when you press a button it does it again until you turn off your computer. i first noticed this with certain screen savers.

the only real trouble i had with linux is that there’s no help file that covers all of linux. yeah i can look it up online in the ubuntu community, but often times even that won’t suffice my quest for knowledge. i found myself using the forums sorta often. like when i was trying to figure out how to connect to a wireless network, the icon at the top i closed early on bc i didn’t think i would want to connect to the internet, but eventually i found i needed to. so looking up the community documents and wiki didn’t find what i needed, i used the forums, and after 5 replies or so, someone finally told me to go alt+F2>nm-applet. why couldn’t that be in the wiki?

another small thing was that i didn’t know you could only change files in your home folder of your user.

my last disappointment is that there aren’t really any self-executable installation files. at first i was completely confused on this, i was looking for a wizard like windows. however, i am now getting really good at the terminal and I’m not sure I regret it so much.

anyways, i still am a pro at using windows, i completely get it, and can do anything i want with it (pretty much). so i find myself using XP still. (plus the computer i installed xubuntu on is not very advanced–900 MHz Celeron processor lol with 256MB RAM and a plain old CDROM).

You said: “Considering that just about everyone that installs Linux, even Ubuntu, is a relatively savvy user, it’s no wonder it’s more stable than a broad scape of Windows installations that range from Power users to grandmothers and 7 year olds.” why do you think that those people are installing linux? it is because they are already tired of windows instability, not because they want to promote linux’s stability and help with the “war against windows”. it was just as unstable when they had windows too.

when i was saying i was an advanced user, i was referring to this, that i actually know how windows works and i can say that it is unstable, not that i don’t understand it. and, because i am moving to linux, your quote already classifies me as an “advanced user”.

how about this–i will actually try out linux for a few days (because i haven’t installed it yet), then i will reply in a few days and rate linux if it is as good as ppl say it is. i don’t really know yet, so i can’t exactly testify to how good linux is myself. but in a few days i’ll be back

and i just want to let you know im not a windows hater, i just don’t understand why its like this. its still an operating system that i can use, even if there are some problems along the way

also, just now, I removed 2 recently used program shortcuts from the windows start menu. when i right hand clicked the second one and removed it, my computer started running as if it was reading the hard drive and it brought up that explorer.exe needed to be shut down. why the hell would it do that? of course it started it up again, but I am an advanced user. like really advanced. and i don’t do anything to this computer. that happened for no reason. i know that windows isn’t good at all, it’s not that i don’t understand all of it because i do. i know that it has tons of problems.

now another problem that just happened while i was typing this comment. go to this website and see the screen shot:

http://download751.mediafire.com/i9mynbdzgnhg/nrzk3zcj2dt/windows%20glitches.bmp

btw, it took Paint 10 seconds to open so i could paste and save the screen shot. yes, paint.

and i just want to let you know im not a windows hater, i just understand why its like this. its still an operating system that i can use, even if there are some problems along the way

I will say that there are a lot of Linux users out there that do hate windows, and I can see their side fo the fence too. I mean the two OS’s are virtually complete opposites, so you would expect their users to also be incompatable right?

Finally someone who agrees that every OS has its pros and cons.
I think that in their own way/field every OS is as good

*sorry no hatemail*