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.

These days, if it takes someone "several hours" to get a functional linux desktop, either they're using Gentoo, or they're incompetent.

Someone who has that much difficulty with it SHOULD stick to windows since their time is valuble.

Meanwhile, those of us who can manage to sort it out in a reasonable amount of time, and who like having the options and variety that using a unix desktop provides should be free to use that.

It's not a binary world; don't like unix? Don't use it. But don't you fucking dare suggest that I stop using BSD as a desktop. Just because YOU can't set up a GUI, firefox, media player and word processor doesn't mean that I should be held down to the level of the stupidest AOL user.

GB2/windows if it makes you happy; but let those of us who want to use unix, use it.