Just a small question (cos I'm a newbie) isn't there a way you can modify the menus? I was exploring our system here at work the other day and I stumbled across a script (don't ask me where it is or what it's called, cos I can't remember, yes I know I should have written it down, but I didn't really want to mess with it) that listed the menu items, their locations on the hard drive and you could change each menu if you wanted. Is this the sort of thing that would help? I think it was accessible via one of the menus (something like the preferences I think). But don't quote me on that... Hope this will help. Andy
I don't want to get started on the woeful state of documentation in the Linux world. Assumptions of critical knowledge are made even in docs intended for newbies and help files are chronically not.
GNOME 2.2.1 Desktop User Guide http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/latest/
That said I killed several trees printing and implementing many proposed solutions, finally stacked it all in a corner so I could get some work done (I think that is why I assembled the PC and bought RH8) using yet another kludge.
How long was it from the first time you sat in front of a keyboard until you could install and configure a Windows system? I'm willing to bet it was longer than you've been working with Linux. Your expectations may not have been realistic.
I regret that you have been led to believe that you would be able to jump into Linux and get started being productive right away. That only applies to people who only need to use what's already configured on the machine, or someone who has a sysadmin handy.
For anyone who needs additional application installation, customization, or other "Power User" functionality, it is simply going to take some time to learn how to do everything. Maybe not as much time as it took to become a Windows Power User, but definitely more time than a casual user would need to get started.
Casual Windows users get around this by calling a guru. If you know enough be aware of Linux and be able to install it, I'm sure you've received your share of such calls for help from Windows users.
You are a Power User, and part of the group that will have the hardest time moving to Linux. Your wife (and mine) has it easy. They just call someone else. A UNIX guru would have it easy too; the environment and lingo would be familiar. You fall in between, and whoever you've talked to about Linux may have done you a disservice by not pointing that out to you.
It is going to be hard and it is going to take time. If you don't want to expend the effort, or don't have the time, I recommend staying with the environment you're familiar with until you are ready to invest the necessary time & effort. I am not being nasty or elitist, I'm just being realistic. A user like yourself is going to have a harder time making the leap than a casual user or a UNIX expert.
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