Linux Pain
I’ve been telling everybody how great Linux is for, ooh, the past 4 years or so. Admittedly, it doesn’t crash as much as Windows, and individual software crashes rarely bring down the whole machine. But perhaps I am suffering from overfamiliarity: I want things to work, not just not crash.
Before last Monday (when I installed Mandrake 9.1) we had a working machine, except that we had no sound or scanning. Now we have a working machine, except that we have no internet connection or printing: two rather more serious omissions, I think you would agree.
I have the external modem from Chris, which should sort problem number one. But the printer used to work, and I can’t figure out why it doesn’t work now.
The computer, which is meant to be my servant, a means to an end, has made me its slave, an end in itself. I spend more time trying to make it work than actually doing some work. It’s doing my head in. Oh, and it looks like I’m not the only one frustrated with the upgrade cycle…