Linux won’t become my favourite operating system anytime soon, that’s sure. I may not be geek enough, but it’s no fun when i install an operating system and i have to spend hours worth of time configuring and installing such basic stuff such as mp3 codecs for the built-in media player (i wonder what it can play out of box), accessing other partitions or just using the network.

Ubuntu is a great choice if you are lucky enough to have a network card it supports. Too bad for me, it recognises neither my wired nor the wireless card, so it’s totally useless, since i spend most of the time with network activities or coding. Without network access i couldn’t update or install any more software, so there was no point to mess around with it anymore.

Yesterday i decided to try out openSUSE. The live cd surprised me: my wired network actually worked! Since i’m not at home now, i’m connecting to the net on wired network (thus i don’t know if the wireless’d work), so i could install stuff and use it… With not much success. I couldn’t mount my NTFS partitions normally (i even tried editing the fstab manually), nor could i play mp3 files, even after installing the suggested codec for the built-in player and lame too. And it wouldn’t import any of my settings from Windows (Ubuntu did). After a day of googling for fixes of various minor annoyances, i decided that whatever people say, i’d have to spend a lot more time in front of the screen (thus going “kyub“) to get adept at using linux. Until then i’ll just stay a lame music-maniac philosopher journalist with a strange addiction to php, who uses Windows. Still.