[Steely Tom]

I just went through a terrible experience with a certain flavor of Linux that is distributed by a used-to-be-well-known company that was the original pioneer of computer networking. I'll not give the name of the company, but I will say that the first letter of it's name is "N".

This distro was so trouble-ridden, so messed up, so full of misbegotten cybernetic dreck, that it cost me two consecutive all-nighters to do something that literally took all of thirty seconds once I blew it off my new Dell server and installed a totally free alternative distro.

I will give the name of the alternative that has now made me very happy and made the learning of wonderful, fascinating Linux the enjoyable experience it should be.

Ubuntu.

[ShadowAce]

This distro was so trouble-ridden, so messed up, so full of misbegotten cybernetic dreck, that it cost me two consecutive all-nighters to do something that literally took all of thirty seconds once I blew it off my new Dell server and installed a totally free alternative distro.

That what happens when you partner with Microsoft. :)