You know what makes me mad about Linux is that what works on one operating system will not work on another. Take for tonight as an example. I have a new backup server running Fedora Core 4 that I am configuring that will have a mirror setup of the server that this domain runs under.
I have never setup a Mirror on my own, and have been having fun getting it ready until tonight. Well I was ready to do a rsync and found a great tutorial on it. All goes well till I get to the point of running rsync on the mirror box. I run the rsync command with all the variables, it connects with the master box, the master box gives the response it should, I enter the password for the user and bam “Permission Denied”
Ok I think what the heck did I do wrong, so I cross check passwords, triple check passwords look at dir/user permissions everything is perfect and guess what. It still is flipping me the bird.
Linux will never ever ever ever ever ever grow out of being a geek operating system! So what to do? Well tomorrow I will call my buddy who is a guru and say what did I do wrong. Invariably he will spend about a hour on it, and we will find out that something stupid prevented it to work.
It is times like these at 8:10pm Hawaiian Standard Time that I hate Linux.
Even on a desktop Linux will never be successful. I work in IT and I’m fairly good with computers. I tried Linux a few times. The last time was 3 weeks ago. I installed Ubuntu on a laptop and I could not get the wireless card to work. I spent a few hours searching the net, downloading drivers, updates, running stuff in the shell and I got it working. But – none that I know would put up with this. So I’ll stick to my Mac and I’ll recommend it to anyone who asks me for advise.
Yeah, Linux can be a pain in the butt. But remember, most non-Geeks will never run rsync, or most of the millions of applications available for linux. They’ll stick to a web browser, email, and their digital camera.
Being partial to FreeBSD, it seems to me at times that linux is really strange…but after I figure out how it works, it never breaks. I can’t say the same for the windows boxes I’m responsible for…
“Linux will never ever ever ever ever ever grow out of being a geek operating system! ”
Chuckle. I’ve been there many times. That’s late-night frustration talking :)
I have moments like this when I just want to trash the whole thing and go back to Windows, but then I simmer down. Been running Linux exclusively for 2 years now and loving most minutes of it.