“I installed apache on my Red Hat 7 system and I am in the process of trying to open port 80 on firewalld to allow web traffic. I typed the following command “firewall-cmd —zone=public —add-service=http” and it returned success. When I then tried to access the web server though I get “the server can’t be reached”. If I turn off firewalld it works. What am I missing?”
If all you need is a desktop OS, Linux is simpler than Windows (at least, to me it is).
Most new PCs have hardware that is specifically designed to work with Windows and it can sometimes be a challenge just to get things like the sound to work. I used to enjoy fiddling around with stuff like that, but not so much these days. I have been somewhat disgusted by Microsoft's policies under Satya Narayana Nadella... Under his leadership Microsoft's products have evolved from sometimes irritating to often maddening.
How many times have you tried to shutdown your laptop when you are on the road, in a hurry and you get some kind of warning not to do anything because Microsoft has decided to apply a critical update in the background? At first you think that this should take just a minute or two. Then ten minutes later the thing hasn't made any progress... the battery is going dead and you have a pressing schedule to keep. This problem has mostly been solved these days, but variations still emerge on occasion.
Typically this type of issue does not happen in this same way with most forms of Linux. But back to the original discussion... an operating system is a platform that allows users to run the programs or applications that are most useful to them. It is really just meant to hold things together and not get in the way. The problem is that I have too much time, and money invested in learning how to get the most out of Microsoft Office products, Adobe Photoshop, various video and audio editing and recording software, 3D design and slicing applications and various other products to consider giving up Windows at this time.
Actually Windows is typically not as annoying as Android which is not only constantly wanting to update itself, but all the apps are constantly wanting to be updated as well. At least they usually give you the choice, but a lot of them are purposely disabled until you allow them to update. Then they demand that you share all your contacts and let them take complete control of your phone or tablet. I have uninstalled many useful apps for wanting access to data about me that I do not want to share. Google and all these App providers are often far more intrusive than Microsoft. Some of the organizations that provide software for Linux go down this same road.
[[and that describes to me why I never have and never will use/install Linux. I like things that are simple and uncomplicated in tech.]]
Been extremely simple for me- linux mint cinnamon- installed, connected without any issues automatically-
Some linux versions are harder than others- mint is really easy- installing it was very like installing windows- everything got detected automatically- the only thing i had to update was my NVidia graphics card driver, but even that was easy- the drivers app saw it right away, and suggested which one to install- just a matter for a few clicks- just like in windows- New versions liek mint are not what linux used to be- diving into command lines isn’t necessary hardly at all anymore-
Now, of course some computers and parts might be a little harder to configure if there aren’t any drivers, or the part might be out of date or something- but on many new computers, everything just gets detected automatically- easy peasy