On May 20, 10:14 pm, "Brenda Ann" wrote:
"D Peter Maus" wrote in ...

enigma wrote:
You DO know there are better alternatives, don't you?

Nothing beats Windows for GAMING.

Apparently. Appropriate for a play O/S.

I have nothing personally against Linux builds... but they're totally
useless to me. There is no software for my webstation that will run on it,
nor are there versions of much of the other software I have and use
constantly. Aside from that, as was brought up before, the simplest thing
to do in XP is a major PITA in Linux, unless you are practically a
command-level user: Installing new software. I have tried at least 8
different iterations of Linux, and each of them has been a major headache,
telling me things like "you need this file in order to install this other
file" or simple networking that refuses to see anything else on our LAN
(though it does pop right up onto the web... )

The issue of having to load various programs to get a tarball to
compile is very true. A good program will have documentation
indicating what should be loaded for a successful compilation. But
this isn't the end of the world.

Suse linux is pretty bullet proof.