unix n00bs

unix n00bs (i.e. most of you here) make me shit my pants

for the love of god, people, using unix for a month is not enough to make you knowledgeable in its ways and give advice to others. please refrain from making yourself look like complete utter idiots (mind you, this is hard to achieve since idiots are the norm in CS) by giving horribly shitty authorative-sounding suggestions based on shit you read two days ago on linuxtoday and newsforge.

discuss.

Linux is a great desktop.

No, it's not.

Certainly, if you feel like dicking around with the system to set it up just right, then maybe it's for you. But most people don't want to spend several hours to a couple of days tweaking files, digging through google and newsgroups to resolve issues, possibly recompiling kernels, patching software and hacking code for things they really want but don't work, and then still wondering why X, Y and Z doesn't work, because nobody else has had that problem before. Or maybe it works, but works poorly.

That's just the beginning of the story. The interfaces that OSS GUIs present is inconsistent and just generally poor. All that work for this?

Linux is a hacker chewtoy. And after a few years (ie, like me), you'll get sick and tired of it. You get tired of solving the same set of problems for the five-thousanth time. You just want it to fucking work already. For servers, fine, but I'd die young from high blood pressure if I had to tolerate it as a desktop.