"jim" <jim@home.net> writes:

>Dammit! I want so badly to get the hell away from Windows, that I am
>spending ALL of my spare time trying out different Linux distros.

And you are going about it all wrong. Just pick something and use it. (Of
course you are probably a troll anyway, in which case it does not matter)


>I tried xubuntu for a day or so - bad graphics.

Since all distros use the same display-- X -- this is the same everywhere,
unless you happened not to like the particular pictures it displays. This
is like getting a new car because paper seat matts the garage put down are
the wrong colour.


>I tried backtrack - not all that it's cracked up to be.

>I am now trying Ubuntu 8.04 and I'll just be ****ed if the simple stuff
>isn't still hard in Linux!!

What simple stuff.


>This is what I would like.... With my XP Pro laptop, connecting to a
>wireless network and browsing shared folders was as easy as clicking
>"Connect to network" slecting the wireless network and clicking "Connect".
>If there was a required key or password, Windows asked for it. You supply
>the info and Windows simply connects to the network.

>You can then open Windows Explorer and browse any shared folders that are
>not password protected.

>This is BASIC functionality that ALL Windows users NEED. What the hell is
>this samba configuration crap?

It is an attempt to give you access to the proprietary Windows crap.



>I must be missing something here.

>PLEASE tell me I am missing something here and that connecting to a network
>and browsing shared folders really IS just as easy in Linux as in Windows.

Lets see, you tell us that you want to use Linux and then complain that it
does not deal with Windows as well as windows deals with windows. Hmm.

Why not complain about your windows machine that it does not connect to the
Linux NFS system easily.