Linux it's free... Good Thing Because It's Full Of Bugs.. 4614

We installed Debian 3.1 rev0a on a couple of our office Compaq Evo desktops. Debian was unable to detect the Compaq Intel 82845 video card, which BTW is standard on all of our 230+ corporate desktops (Compaq standard corporate video for the Evo). We had to mess with the X configuration, configured it with both vesa and i810 drivers, none of dissapointed with the Debian graphical interface: fonts sucked (jaggy, terrible), the whole look and feel of the gnome desktop was old and outdated (butt ugly in one of our employee's words). We switched to KDE, and immediatelly eveybody in the team screamed "no way!!!", KDE is cartoonished and geeky, unacceptable in a serious corporate envirnment. The FedoraCore 4 installation story was even worse, everything installed well but the FC4 installer failed to setup dual-boot properly, so after rebooting, the 3 Compaq Evos went straight to Windows without presenting a grub menu, a royal waste of my time and our staff. We paid little money for the Debian 3.1 rev0a and FC4 CDs at CheapBytes.com, but at the end of the day we realized once again that you get what you pay for, Linux still sucks!

Eros Tintory