Linux

I have seen hell. It is being ignorant of Debian Linux, and trying to set up a server on it. It’s… horrible. Debian Linux is a very powerful and stable free opensource operating system. By default, it has no GUI, meaning no mouse use. Keyboard only. The user must know text commands and their syntax in order to do anything at all. Upon pressing the power button, the user is greeted to the usual booting BIOS diagnostics, then a GRUB bootloader. This is for allowing multiple operating systems to be installed and runnable on the same machine. Although having a command line allows a user to do anything right from the start, it is by no means intuitive to me, someone who has lived life with Windows.
Apache, Linux’s poster child server, is no better than Debian itself. There is, to my knowledge, no GUI for configuration. It’s all hidden away in admittedly well-documented configuration files that in my case had to be manually edited by hand.

Although I got PHP working, I could not get PHP to recognize the MySql I had installed, which happened without any work on my part on my Windows install. That means no databases. Which means no forum or wordpress.

I realize that Linux is extremely powerful and used extensively, if not totally, by such big names as Google and TiVo, it is not intuitive despite the large community of tutorials. Maybe I’m just stupid or something. Anyways, that’s my excuse for the website being down for so long.