No, actually that was user error. You fucking set it up wrong which is why it ended up all fucked up.
Blame yourself.
Hehe.. here we differ.
Although I (as a user) could have done something differently, that dialog could be so much better.
I am not about blaming here, but about improving.
He's right.
Your complaint about the dialog is probably valid; Linux dialogs often tend to suck. But, according to the linux community, it was you who fucked it up in the first place by not using fdisk and grub, and reading the dialog in the setup wizard instead.
I'm serious. The day you decide to use F/OSS, you waive all rights to dialogs and wizards, and instead are required -- not suggested, fucking
required -- to do everything by hand in a terminal. Most GUI interaction in linux usually leads to instability.
Is it reasonable? No. Is it usable? No. Is it a pain in the ass to get it running? Yes. Does it break every time you try to upgrade half the OS at once? Yes.
Will it eventually work, if you're persistent and configure everything manually and build all of your binaries from source?
Yes, that's the point. In fact, that's the whole point- "Linux. You'd better know everything!"
Why does one always get that shitty attitude when dealing with Linuxers? Get laid more often, Sheesh.
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Because there's no such thing as "a linux user", only "developers that happen to use linux". Because everyone that actually understands this shit inherently comes with a sense of entitlement. Because you asked for "an answer", and "an answer" is not free. It cost someone 15 hours of their day reading GRUB documentation, like you "should have done" (according to the Devs) in the first place, to realize that the installation GUI is utter crap in the first place.
You're working with products that were put together by a disjoint symposium of disgruntled developers, almost all of whom have a god complex and too much free time on their hands and probably aren't as smart as they think -- or why else are they giving away free software? Of course it's difficult to use properly.
Anyone who really understands *nix will either call me "fucking idiot" and walk away from thread, or acknowledge some degree of truth [and suggest an easy fix! that doesn't work!] That's just how *nix'ers are.
EDIT-- to clarify, i feel bad for you, emp. sucks you lost a whole day to a shitty gui. i just switched back to windows xp after running linux for almost a year. i recommend windows xp for friends, family and every other computer that is not a server, and i recommend you switch back to xp as well.
