Linux is a pile of shit

It's been over a year and you still seem to be experiencing a high level of frustration. Maybe you are not the best person to be working on this project?
Is there no technical staff to assist?

 

But the project seems to require Linux. And by extension, at least a modest level of familiarity.

I mean we could try and be productive and ask for output of stuff like lspci, lsusb or dmesg, but your focus seems to be on ranting rather than solving your problems.

 

download the driver and install it - no?
thats what i did with the nvidia driver

 

Why do you not use something else then?

 

ON linux the term....

basically means

download package
make install package
and if it's a driver
sudo modprobe package

I'm not a full time linux user, but it's pretty clear to me your either,
- Not making any attempt to learn because you dont like linux ( personal bias)
- Being willfully difficult
- Just not equipped to install drivers on Linux - sorry i don't mean to make a personal attack, installing drivers on linux ISN'T a super simple process, i would never expect my parents to do it.
But i would expect any medium skilled computer professional to be able to do so..


Linux can be as confusing as all hell sometimes, and getting help is a VERY different process from other OS's,
but it can also more flexible and more powerful than other OS's too.

(sort of like learning in high school vs learning at university)

 

So you are stuck doing a job you have no skills to do. That has happened to a lot of people. However, the solution is not to whine about tools you do not understand, the solution is to either learn stuff fast or find other people to do the work you can't.

 

Maybe you could use FreeBSD rather than Linux?
It's a single OS with better documentation instead of multiple Linux distros usually with worse documentation.

 

Do you really think that FreeBSD has better driver support than Linux?

 

I think everybody here knows that FreeBSD has fewer drivers than Linux, but nobody really knows anything about tongue_of_colicab's project or hardware requirements.

 

He himself is clueless it seems. But I can feel his pain. I myself had to use Windows for a while and that made me want to die. But I didn't blame Windows, just that I have been used to UNIX for so long that Windows is unusable for me (well except as a gaming OS that is).

 

Clueless is rather derogatory. He just doesn't know how to use Linux and had far too high expectations as to how easy it would be to achieve what he needs. You can't approach Linux the same way as windows where generally everything works as expected, drivers are readily available and install themselves (or are easy to install) and common tasks are more obvious.

Linux and the various flavors have come a long way since I first learnt to use it in Slackware with compiling everything from scratch, coding my own firewalls and scripts, modifying kernels. Package managers and repos have opened it up to many more users over the last decade or so with big improvements in compatibility and UI.

It's still not an easy OS to be thrown into though, especially on server version only. The vitriol he throws at it just because he doesn't understand how it works and his immediate expectations are not met are way overboard.

I can't stand using Windows as a server platform but I don't go around spewing hate towards it.

 

Well that's how I call me about Windows, clueless And that's not the issue: the issue is using profanity and blame the OS when it likely is your own inability to solve issues that is the problem.

Historically (read before Windows Seven) I had more issues with installing Windows than Linux. And I'm still unable to solve any issue or doing any advanced administration on Windows machines. A question of education and experience.

 

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well, Linux and Windows mingle very well, when you use Windows Active Directory -for user rights and account control- and Linux servers, at least from my experience. I had to learn to create an active directory using Linux machines as servers, a couple of years ago and it takes some administration to get it done, but it works very well.

I.e. for instance for a school organisation, where students and teachers have different rights for some folders. -say a teacher can read and write in a folder while a student can only read- or making some folders invisible to students..., etc, same for a company etc-

 

Funny post. =)

I won't debate too much, though. For most things I do, I like more the Linux than the Windows way, but that is just me.

 

That is a nice attitude to people who are giving you software to use any way you like. Maybe you could pay a competent consultant to do things you are not capable of doing?