> As > soon as I tried to go beyond basic usage, however, things would quickly devolve into > hours of tweaking conf files and hunting in Google for solutions to strange problems. > In the end, I could generally get things working the way I wanted, but I found myself > spending more time wrestling with the OS and setup than I did actually doing the > things I set the machine up to do. >
erm... the real question is: would a Windows machine have allowed for the same custom settings? if not, it means that under Windows you would have had to give up, while under Linux you *only* had to wrestle for some times with the OS
not that I'm a great Unix fan, but it has pros and cons as any other OS...