Linux, anyone?

[Griffin NoName]

I have always regarded any flavour of Unix to allow more fiddling than Windows but that says nothing about easy or not.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

No, I expect Linux which is touted as superior in every way to windoze, to behave at least as well as windoze does.   As a bare minimum.

And I could even forgive the no-3-screens issue-- if it would work with just one. It doesn't.   I cannot boot to a readable screen, unless I jump through several "recovery mode" hoops each and every time.

And it won't print to my printer, no matter what I try. 

Windoze does all of these things right out of the box, without me doing a darn thing.   It just works.   Linux, just does not: without a PhD expert to tweak it first.

That's a failure of epic proportions, right there:  Two of the most basic functions, right out of the box, do not work.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I have always regarded any flavour of Unix to allow more fiddling than Windows but that says nothing about easy or not.

That could very well be true-- I'm pretty ignorant with regards to Unix myself.  I know DOS backwards & forwards (even still), and I know Windoze pretty well (but not as well as I used to-- new versions and all that).

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Update to the Linux Saga.

I managed to put an update onto a USB drive, and using that, install a newer version of Unbuntu on my Linux drive.  At the same time, I figured out how to install Catalyst drivers for my screens, and more to the point, got them to work-- well, 2 of the 3 work as 2 separate spaces.  The 3rd one is a duplicate of one of the others.  I can move the duplicate about, but cannot get 3 unique spaces. Oh well--2 is twice as nice as 1. 

And it also boots into a readable form each and every time-- yaays!