Ubuntu...

[DimPrawn]

Linux is only "free" if your time is worthless.

HTH

[chicane]

Linux is only "free" if your time is worthless.

HTH

Where's the 'yawn' smiley? Linux has kept me in contract for the last 3 years.

[b0redom]

I'm working as a Unix SA, but I agree with DP too.

[Fred Bloggs]

IME, the Linux geeks get all stroppy and tell newby types to RTFM when you're really stuck and have already RTFM a million times and are still stuck.

[portseven]

...at least Windows gives you some idea why things dont work.

Linux noob.

I always find it the other way round Windows never tells you enough about why something doesn't work

Have a look at the files in /var/log, for a start /var/log/messages would probably be usefull. They are all text files, so just fire up your favorite text editor and open them.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Linux is only "free" if your time is worthless.

HTH

Windows is only £169.18 if your time is worthless.

HTH

[Tarquin Farquhar]

IME, the Linux geeks get all stroppy and tell newby types to RTFM when you're really stuck and have already RTFM a million times and are still stuck.

And eventually come to the conclusion that if you can't fix this yourself, you don't deserve to have a computer.

[gingerjedi]

I always find it the other way round Windows never tells you enough about why something doesn't work

Have a look at the files in /var/log, for a start /var/log/messages would probably be usefull. They are all text files, so just fire up your favorite text editor and open them.

Just getting my bearings, the surroundings look familiar but everything is in a different place from what I'm used to... which is to be expected to be fair.

Took it off and repartitioned drive back to how it was, now I'm running it straight off the CD it's playing ball, yesterday Firefox was playing up.

[administrator]

IME, the Linux geeks get all stroppy and tell newby types to RTFM when you're really stuck and have already RTFM a million times and are still stuck.

http://ubuntuforums.org/

1,278,435 Threads - all of them saying RTFM of course

[Cliphead]

And eventually come to the conclusion that if you can't fix this yourself, you don't deserve to have a computer.

Been thinking this since 1981