I’m a highly experienced Windows guru with the chops to back it up. But now I find myself having to install, configure, and manage CentOS–all without the slightest idea how to do even the most basic system administration tasks in Linux, like managing users and groups, and managing drive partitions–or even what each partition is supposed to do. Under the covers, Linux is so fundamentally different from any other OS I’ve ever used (and I know a few others besides Windows), that I find myself forced to take my vast experience and throw it away and start from scratch, because it is almost completely irrelevant under Linux. There is very little (outside of my knowledge of TCP/IP) that I can apply from the Windows world to the Linux world.
What really, really bothers me about Linux is that none of the fucking Linux hippies I encounter, on the Internet or in person, has a fucking STRAIGHT ANSWER FOR ANYTHING!!! All I want to know is how to install GIMP under CentOS. Under Windows, it’s a breeze; click-click and you’re done.
I’ve googled the question: “Install GIMP under CentOS 5″ and I get 20,000 different answers from 20,000 different “experts.” And exactly none of them descripe a simple “click-click” install, which is what a total n00b like me needs.
I have a bunch of Linux people here in my office (and a friend or two) who resentfully turn up their noses at everything Microsoft and swear on their dead grandma’s graves that Linux is the greatest thing to ever be invented in the history of Earth, better even than the wheel or fire. Well, I got news for you Tofu-eating Linux hippies: Windows doesn’t make me RECOMPILE THE FUCKING KERNEL to install a simple graphics editor! These guys scratch their heads in squnty-eyed wonder why end-users aren’t flocking in droves to Linux. If the Goddamn learning curve wasn’t VERTICAL, I’m sure you’d get more users.
God help me when I try to install Asterisk and use this thing as a phone switch.
