that's my view of Linux : it's not for the basic user but for experienced programmers.
Once the machine/system is up and running, with a KDE or GNOME etc.. desk, and all the other mousefriendly applications <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> it seems more stable than a Windows machine and then a basic user can use it.

I also had a 1 or 2 week training on linux ten years ago. Back home, I tried to install it on one of my machine... never succeded. And as we never used it at work, I just dropped the subject. The main "souvenir" I keep from that training, was that I was sent 15 years back in time, when learning machine language.... <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> and then I had a thought for all those people who had created third or fourth level languages.... what for ?!?


P.S. : I did leave a message on a forum... no answer up to now.
Re-install (and don't touch anything afterwards !) will be the motto of the day !!