On 8/2/07, Dinesh Joshi dinesh.a.joshi@gmail.com wrote:
Umm...yes I was talking not only about the initial installation but also all the terminologies that Linux uses. They are completely different from the Windoze world. Plus the post installation maintenance is sometimes difficult.
I think users who decide to install Linux on their systems do expect the fact that some things will be addressed differently.
Also, I think you mean to say "post installation customization" and not maintenance -- I've never had the need to defrag or refresh my antivirus (I don't have one actually). A few months back, I would have conceded to the fact that with debian unstable you should keep up with the upgrades that come out almost every other day, but not anymore. I just managed to go almost 2-3 months without doing an apt-get update (ok, I was obsessed with it ;) ) and didn't notice the difference.
I'll pitch a very common problem. Sometimes it does happen that Ubuntu detects Windows partition but for some unknown reason it doesn't mount it. Now the solution is simple, for us. Edit /etc/fstab and make the right entries. But if you look at it from a newbie perspective, he'll need to know:
I cannot comment on this since I haven't had a parallel windows installation for about 2 years now. But then, is this really _that_ common a problem as you're making it out to be? If yes then it's a reasonably big flaw.