Me Bobby is sticking with LINUX its a fwd e-mail Re: [Wolves] Read This - Re: Goodbye

[Bobby Singh]

--- Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:

> On Monday 13 June 2005 15:11, Bobby Singh wrote:
> > TAKEN FROM KUBUNTU NEWSGROUP
> >
> > --- Efwkub at aol.com wrote:
> > > Dear Linux enthusiasts in general and Kubuntu
> people
> > > in particular, thank you
> > > for the assistance I have received on this list.
> > >
> > > With regret I have decided that I do not have
> enough
> > > time to use Linux.
> > > Unfortunately I have had too many problems,
> bugs,
> > > inconsistencies, etc. etc. First
> > > with SUSE (as earlier noted I gave up using
> their
> > > support as it was going
> > > nowhere, slowly). Now with Kubuntu.
> 
> Hi Bobby
> 
> Firstly, don't give in so quickly. to be honest I
> didn't take much notice of 
> any problems you may have posted in respect of Suse.
> 
> Was you using version 9.2? that release was plagued
> with problems 9.3 is much 
> better, also as a beginner I don't think you did
> yourself any favours by 
> selecting Kubuntu as much as I love the look and
> feel of it thats about the 
> only praise you'll get from me in respect of Ubuntu
> & Kubuntu.
> 
> Having read your extensive mail you obviously have a
> wide knowledge of MS 
> however IMHO when you come to the Linux arena you
> need to forget all you 
> know, at first. It'll only trip you up.
> 
> You'd have been better off starting with
> Mandrake/Mandriva or even Fedora they 
> are easy to use and in the case of Mandriva have the
> look and feel of Windows 
> so the culture shock is not so great.
> 
> My humble advice to any new user is play around with
> whatever you choose for 
> at least two weeks so that you get a rough idea of
> whats going on, OK so 
> maybe sounds not working or you cant get on the net
> its not that critical for 
> a few days.
> 
> Jumping in with both feet trying to set up a cluster
> server over a wireless 
> connection with separate partitions for users and
> god knows what is for the 
> Guru's. 
> 
> I run WinXP and Suse dual boot at home my XP used my
> Hayes external Modem for 
> two years but a month ago decided it didn't like it
> anymore and crashes if I 
> try and use it yet Suse loves it in fact it gives me
> higher speeds than I'm 
> supposed to get (I've had 59K!!) admittedly its V90.
> 
> I don't knock Windows I use it a lot but I love
> Linux too, my only complaint 
> is against myself and my lack of knowledge.
> 
> My Grandfather used to say "Its a poor man who
> blames his tools" and in 
> respect of Linux theres never a truer saying sure
> there might be a bit of 
> wrong code but thats the fun finding it and putting
> it right.
> 
> So don't give in there are guys on this list who
> really know theirs stuff try 
> something easier once you've got the hang of the
> basics you can take the 
> training wheels off :-)
> 
> -- 
>  
> Regards,
> Peter Cannon.
> peter at cannon-linux.co.uk
> Fedora Core 3 & Suse Pro 9.2
> 
> "There is every excuse for not knowing
> there is no excuse for not asking"
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