Taylor: Quite a few of your complaints are being fixed in 8.10 or upcoming releases. There is a guest account created by default in 8.10 so you can enable or disable the account as you see fit.
1. Software installs are only difficult if there is not a .deb package available. If there is a .deb file for the software you can just double click and install it. That's even faster than Windows click next 5 times to start. I will admit that installing something that does not have a deb package is harder but hopefully linux as a whole will fix that some day.
2. Daily operations such as? You may not like how Gnome is setup then. Maybe give KDE4 a shot and see how you like it. I started off using KDE because it was much closer to Windows but now I'm on Gnome because everything works more reliably for me than early KDE4.
3. Also being worked on. There are new graphical tools coming out for many common things you may have to do. CLI is still faster if you know what you are doing but it's nice to have the option.
4. DX is a microsoft product so there will never be a native release. Wine works well enough for many gamers. If OpenGL took off again there would be many more native linux games available.
5. It's a security 'feature' for linux but I do like you idea though. Maybe submit it to http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ and it could be implemented in an upcoming release.
6. Can you do that on Windows? I've never heard of restricting access to a physical hard drive. Network drives yes, but physical, no.
Linux is not for everyone, that I won't dispute, but the last time I compiled my own kernel was in 2003 when I was doing a Gentoo stage 2 install. Anymore I just install the updates Ubuntu offers me and it's worked well for me so far. I use Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop and home server but my main PC is still Windows for gaming and for some programs I can't get the alternative for on Linux.
For files that are not offered in the repositories try http://getdeb.net I've found a lot of great programs on there that I would have had to install manually.
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Taylor: Quite a few of your complaints are being fixed in 8.10 or upcoming releases. There is a guest account created by default in 8.10 so you can enable or disable the account as you see fit.
1. Software installs are only difficult if there is not a .deb package available. If there is a .deb file for the software you can just double click and install it. That's even faster than Windows click next 5 times to start. I will admit that installing something that does not have a deb package is harder but hopefully linux as a whole will fix that some day.
2. Daily operations such as? You may not like how Gnome is setup then. Maybe give KDE4 a shot and see how you like it. I started off using KDE because it was much closer to Windows but now I'm on Gnome because everything works more reliably for me than early KDE4.
3. Also being worked on. There are new graphical tools coming out for many common things you may have to do. CLI is still faster if you know what you are doing but it's nice to have the option.
4. DX is a microsoft product so there will never be a native release. Wine works well enough for many gamers. If OpenGL took off again there would be many more native linux games available.
5. It's a security 'feature' for linux but I do like you idea though. Maybe submit it to http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ and it could be implemented in an upcoming release.
6. Can you do that on Windows? I've never heard of restricting access to a physical hard drive. Network drives yes, but physical, no.
Linux is not for everyone, that I won't dispute, but the last time I compiled my own kernel was in 2003 when I was doing a Gentoo stage 2 install. Anymore I just install the updates Ubuntu offers me and it's worked well for me so far. I use Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop and home server but my main PC is still Windows for gaming and for some programs I can't get the alternative for on Linux.
For files that are not offered in the repositories try http://getdeb.net I've found a lot of great programs on there that I would have had to install manually.