I am currently posting this from my P.O.S Windows Xp, as I cannot get Debian to recognize my DWL-650. (please don't offer me help, I understand there are a plethora of posts dealing with this exact problem I have, and I have no desire to create another). Let me tell you a little about myself. I am a sophmore at Laguna Hills High School, CA. I was raised of Macintosh, dated with Windows, and am finally grwoing up with Debian. I am a newb to Debian is the hugest degree. I downloaded Knoppix on a whim, liked the way it looked, and after about five minutes, decided I needed Debian. I installed it of an old "borrowed" Great Quality, that was actually shiped with a distribution of Linux, though I do not know which one. It took me maybe ten different installations to partion my hard drive to run 98 and Debian. Maybe another five to realize I need the X11 package to run KDE and maybe two more just for the fun of it. I will tell you straight out, Linux and Debain are a huge pain in the ass. But everytime something works, everytime it doesn't give some random reason why it could follow the instruction I told it to, It's like I died and went to hevean. I don't know about you guys, especially you Linux Pros, who could do the things that literally took me a month in minutes, but for me, the challange of the journey is what makes it all worth it. It's almost as if the more of a pain in the ass something is, the more we appriciate it when its not. And personally, whenever I deal with Microsoft Support, I feel like I'm being spoon fed by strangers. It's like a nice stupidity pill with a sugar coating of faux interest. Its the same with Mac too. My dad tells me of a time when you could call up, and get a real person who didn't feed you some lines or tell you that an upgrade would be best, but someone who not only could not only fix problems, but knew what caused them and how to avoid causing more. But with Linux, I don't know. It almost feels like a family, and some people maybe actually want to help you. It leaves you with a feeling of belonging and comradery.
Wow. Thats a lot more then I wanted to write. I guess I'll wrap it up. And in conclusion (tell me thats not the dumbest way to wrap up a post) I would just like to say, that each OS is wonderful in its own way, there is so much diffrence between them, I really can't see myself divorcing from any of them in the forseeable future.
But if I were stranded on an Island of Bikini babes, and all I could bring was one computer, at least right now, it would be Debian.
If I can ever get the damn thing to work.