While recompiling the kernel isnt that bad man, its almost like the control panel.
We migh not be screwed with sound cards, its supposed to be like a Audigy. It may work one day. If you really want to, pay. OSS will work. Theres a free version, but you have to reset it every hour. But the point is it will work if you pay.
You might want to look into your vid card too, that sounds too funny to be right.
Like i said before the biggest problem with all the modern unix*s is the people.
You have people that go out of there way to make it hard for you. You have people that that thinks guis are evil and all people should completly master the art of assembly, even then your cheating in their eyes.
There the people that can code dam well, instead of actually doing there jobs(yes jobs, they wanted the responsibility) and makeing things alittle nice there poke fun of the guy that cant live on the command line.
You cant live on the command line, that is not for a desktop and never was. There is a place or it, but its not every where.
The only problem is the 'gurus', they can easily fix all of this but they choose not too. Its supposed to keep the group more pure.
As for the more productive part, only if you time your brakes when it crashes. It cost alot of money with all the crap ms pulls with companies. Open Office is just as good as MS Office. Kword is great too. For a basic (and i mean basic) desktop Linux is fine. Games on the other hand are evil, they all use API/DirectX.
Plus this will be a huge flame since Fountain, way to go....
