9:42 AM

I came upstairs last night, cursing like a sailor. Merrystar raised an eyebrow.

“I just installed SuSE. I can’t believe I wasted so much time on Red Hat and Fedora,” I said.

Her eyebrow didn’t move.

“There were no problems. It detected the network card immediately. All I had to do was enter the SSID and WEP key and it was online. It installed mostly everything that I wanted, and not very much that I didn’t; and getting emacs off their site wasn’t difficult at all. Damn it!”

“That’s nice, dear,” she said. I think she’s used to this by now. I stomped back downstairs to continue cursing at something that actually worked out of the box, instead of requiring hours of configuration to get it running.

This morning I came downstairs and everything was still working on Arbonne. I installed rsync so I could reload our home directories off of Tigana. I changed a few of the window behaviors because I wanted to.

Argh! Linux is supposed to be hard, not easy! Especially to configure!