<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> New user, completely astounded at how impossible Fedora is to use. Please, please, pass this on to someone who can fix this thing. Because I like Fedora, but it's killing me. Is anybody in charge here? ( I know, the answer is both yes& no. But ultimately someone somewhere must have a significant clue ) The following is a list of woes suffered since trying to use Fedora: <ul> <li>Computer running at full speed for most of last couple of days</li> <li>Download limits exceeded</li> <li>Persistent headache</li> <li>End of tether reached</li> <li>Difficulty communicating with others</li> <li>Possible psychotic episodes </li> </ul> It's all to do with finding out what Fedora can & can't do - what works well, what doesn't. Every time i try something new, like KDE versus Gnome, I can look forward to several hours of downloading. It shouldn't be that frustrating. You should be encouraging people to try new things, not making is a total waste of time. I suppose your internet connections are faster - ours are like swamps. Things I want: <ul> <li>Ability to quickly try & discard applications</li> <li>Not the latest software, just something that works.</li> <li>The ability to investigate the potentials and shortcomings of Linux, preferably on virtual PC or VMware or whatever. I like my XP OS, mainly because I understand it.</li> <li>Quick, fast, light. I don't want/need the latest version. It came in the box, it should go back in the box, it should come back out of the box. Requiring that I then download every update is ludicrous. If I don't like something it costs me hours. </li> <li>I made a mistake - let me get back what I had yesterday. When I thought I'd try xfce desktop it cost me about 16 hours to get back to something I could use. No joke. What is that thing?</li> <li>And frankly the whole process just makes me think maybe Windows isn't so bad after all. I just happen to be doing a course right now that thinks Linux servers are a good idea. Maybe they are, but Lin desktops cause heart attacks. </li> </ul> Remember - fast & light. Fast & light. Fast and light...... </body> </html>