SecretMethod70

Well, to be fair, you can also get it from Mandrake's own website, but personally I think that linuxiso is a lot easier to use and nice since it has links to many different distros.

It's true though...Linux is something that you learn and learn to appreciate over time. When I started out with it, there were a bunch of "why dosen't it do this?!" and "why won't this work?!" comments on my part. Then I learned that a lot of times it DID do that and things DID work...if you took the time to learn how. And in the cases where it didn't, it's not really Linux's fault most of the time. For example, support for hardware, if the hardware company won't make drivers for Linux, for whatever reason, then there's not going to be support until someone in the Linux community goes through the tedious process of reverse engineering, etc. So, if you want good support for things in Linux, the best way to get it is not to complain that "Linux isn't ready" because it doesn't have support, but, rather, that the company that makes the hardware isn't up with the times and tell them that. Many companies won't bother supporting Linux until people show them that it's to their benefit, and that means more and more people need to use Linux and tell whatever company that they do use Linux and that they want them to support Linux.

It's an uphill battle for us at first, but I guarantee that if everyone that has ever tried Linux and gotten pissed off that their "printer doesn't work" or their "mouse doesn't work" had stuck with it and put pressure on the makers of those products to support Linux more, Linux would be in a far different place right now.

That's not to say the Linux community can't do things to improve upon this as well, just that "it takes 2 to tango" if you will. So far, the majority of the time, the Linux community has been trying to tango with itself.

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