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I just got Debian woody in the mail...

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slave:
...and boy, did it suck!  It was 10x harder to install than any version of Windows I've seen.  If you want the definition of "counter-intuative" then try installing Debian.  I especially liked the part where it couldn't find my modem (which is NOT a winmodem) and then gave me this sarcastic message about my not running setserial even though I hadn't been given a command prompt up to that point.  It then gave me some command to run later to try to "fix" it but it scrolled off the screen so fast I couldn't read it.  I enjoyed how Woody came out merely days ago but contains software that is so outdated it makes redhat 7.0 look modern.  I also thought it was super that I couldn't choose a journaling filesystem because the lame kernel didn't support it (2.2 series - give me a break!)  
After asking me 2528959345 questions (and during the dialoge if I made a mistake I found no way of going back and had to start over) it finally got around to installing the packages, but near the end it gave me a cheery error that said the packages failed to install because of failed dependencies and told me "sorry, Debian isn't perfect."  Somehow I already knew that.  I think the assholes who suggested Debian to me must have been playing a practical joke.  Now I've tried over 5 Linux distributions and every one has been a miserable experience in some way or another.  Tell me, what do you see in such shoddy software?

voidmain:
Well Debian is not for bone heads. And for the non-technical types like yourself Debian can be a little much to install.  But unlike Windows you only have to install it once. By the way how much did you pay for it?

Master of Reality:
i am very surprised tha he winXP Luser is even able to turn on his computer.

slave:
I payed 20 dollars for it.  I got Windows XP for 80 dollars.

PS Just because it's "free" doesn't mean I can't find faults with it.

trc3:
How did you get XPoo for $80 isint it like $200 or something... Whatever it dosent really matter, use mandrake its easy as hell to install and its done in about half the time XPoo is.  Im by no means a genius and Ive installed mandrake on three computers with no errors or problems at all...

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