Linux sucks?

[Manu Schnetzler]

I know I might be setting myself up to be thoroughly flamed, but I 
thought I'd share my experience anyway and request some advice.

I am using Windows and there is no way I can avoid it, because most of 
the applications I run in my field do not run on Linux. But some do, and 
I thought setting up a dual boot machine would be nice, and quite 
frankly I've always liked Unix and don't like Microsoft much (I tend to 
like the David side of things in general), so anything I could do 
another way would be great. By the way, I am not a beginner when it 
comes to Unix/shells and such. In fact, I have cygwin on Windows because 
I like the tools.

So there we go: FC3 installed fairly easily. Now how do I set up my dual 
head on here? Well that didn't go too well. There's a bug in FC3, so I 
had to apply a patch. It went a bit further but it still doesn't work: 
can't get the second monitor to be recognized. After letting 
system-config-display rewrite my xorg.conf, it is not booting anymore, 
so I have to get back in non-graphical mode and reset the old xorg.conf. 
At this point, I have spent probably 6 hours setting up my machine and 
looking for info on the web.

Next thing, GRUB hangs and it takes me a few more hours of trying 
several things, and I end up having to re-install FC3. I haven't booted 
Linux since then...

I know I won't make any friends here, but here's my conclusion. Linux is 
not ready. For someone like me who doesn't have days to waste on 
configuration and trying to solve issues, we'll have to stick with 
Windows. And I know I will get the usual "but Windows crashes all the 
time" and such. Well XP has been good to me so far - I can't remember a 
major crash, so that argument doesn't stand anymore. Maybe back in the 
days of NT, but not today.

I'd love Linux to work, I really do. I'd love to ditch Windows and put a 
Tux sticker on my PC, but I can't depend on it for my work, so I won't. 
I hope I won't simply get flames telling me that I'm too stupid to get 
past the problems I face. It would be more interesting to receive some 
advice: should I try Red Hat and pay for support? Wait another 5 years? 
Should I spend another 10 hours trying to get FC3 to work for me? Is it 
worth my time, or will I face some other problem once/if I get my dual 
head to work?

Thanks!

Manu