Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 13, 2005 01:35 AM
If you are a linux newbie it is not easy at all. While it may seem there are lots of step by step guides they are mostly only pointers leaving you wondering what EXACTLY to do, what to skip and how to get back to where you were.
Examples: Knoppmyth has a terminal window which requires mouse over when typing the password and it doesn't give feedback on if it received your input. Now imagine your screen not being configured correctly. Happy hunting on why you can't go on.
XF86Config-4 has multiple legal layouts and different people will show samples looking totally different and you will be wondering why it doesn't work after reboot, maybe you put the the commands out of order while trying to merge the texts, maybe it's the wrong setting, does it even try to read your setting? maybe the hardware is fitted wrong, or its the pci slot number, or<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... or.
You'll also end up using things like vi which is more difficult to grasp then wordperfect for DOS but this time you havend had a schoolcourse using it.
You'll get instructed to use CTRL ALT F1 without being told that CTRL ALT F5 is the way out of there. And all sorts of newbie dead ends.
'editing some text files by hand' seems easy but you'll end up wondering, pondering and frustrated. Why has nobody made these well known configurations (like PVR-350 on Pal and xga) into a popup menu so one can exclude most config errors from being the cause of failure?
Never used Linux and you want Mythtv? I suggest you'll first use linux as a desktop for a few weeks or months and there you should learn that you can edit XF86Config-4 with a normal texteditor like Kate and that file properties can be shown and adjusted in plain English. That apt-get does not always work perfect but that you can purge conflicts in Synaptic. All with a mouse so that you will recognise where you are at in the OS, just like on Apple Mac OS, Atari TOS, Commodore Amiga and Microsoft Windows.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 13, 2005 01:35 AMExamples:
Knoppmyth has a terminal window which requires mouse over when typing the password and it doesn't give feedback on if it received your input. Now imagine your screen not being configured correctly. Happy hunting on why you can't go on.
XF86Config-4 has multiple legal layouts and different people will show samples looking totally different and you will be wondering why it doesn't work after reboot, maybe you put the the commands out of order while trying to merge the texts, maybe it's the wrong setting, does it even try to read your setting? maybe the hardware is fitted wrong, or its the pci slot number, or<nobr> <wbr></nobr>... or.
You'll also end up using things like vi which is more difficult to grasp then wordperfect for DOS but this time you havend had a schoolcourse using it.
You'll get instructed to use CTRL ALT F1 without being told that CTRL ALT F5 is the way out of there. And all sorts of newbie dead ends.
'editing some text files by hand' seems easy but you'll end up wondering, pondering and frustrated. Why has nobody made these well known configurations (like PVR-350 on Pal and xga) into a popup menu so one can exclude most config errors from being the cause of failure?
Never used Linux and you want Mythtv?
I suggest you'll first use linux as a desktop for a few weeks or months and there you should learn that you can edit XF86Config-4 with a normal texteditor like Kate and that file properties can be shown and adjusted in plain English. That apt-get does not always work perfect but that you can purge conflicts in Synaptic. All with a mouse so that you will recognise where you are at in the OS, just like on Apple Mac OS, Atari TOS, Commodore Amiga and Microsoft Windows.
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