Me and Linux don’t seem to get along… ever

As some of you may have guessed by some of my Tweets, I decided to give Ubuntu Linux a try (again). This time, instead of downloading the regular version of Ubuntu, I decided to give a distribution called Ubuntu Studio a try. As of late I do a lot of video editing, and I was interested to see what the Open Source world had to offer.

Unfortunately, every single time I decide to give Linux a try there’s always some kind of obstacle in the way. Specifically, this obstacle is Wireless Drivers, either the Drivers don’t work out-of-the-box and I have to spend the day Googling them, or the Drivers just plain and simply aren’t available.

This time the Drivers worked out of the box. The problem? They only supported WEP encryption. I use WPA encryption over my wireless network, so this renders the drivers more or less useless to me.

All the time I hear people praising Linux, and how it’s the best Operating System evar, but I just don’t see any evidence of that. I want to use Linux, but how am I supposed to when even the most simple tasks such as connecting to a wireless network results in a day-long struggle? I’m simply not willing to spend an entire day getting an Operating System to work.

Right now i’m a Windows user, and Windows does just about everything that I need it to. If people want me to switch to Linux distributions, then they’ve got a lot of work to do by the looks of things. Mainly, it needs to be a lot less painful to set everything up.

~ by pokeh on September 16, 2009.