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*bump*This is still useful and used to drive me crazy when I was using XP!

I started using Linux sooo many years ago. It's always been a part of my life, thanks to my dad! I recently deleted my very last Windows partition because the only thing keeping me there was my iPod and my (admittedly ridiculous) love affair with iTunes.I'm now using Amarok. And I've fallen in love with it! I keep falling in love with software!

I loved the Linux magazines until I looked at the price! I'd much rather download! I can buy 25 CDs for the price of one magazine!To the OP, is your DVD drive the only drive in your machine? If not, change your boot sequence and try to boot to the other drive. Also, try borrowing Linux CDs from friends (assuming you have friends cool enough to use Linux).

This totally depends on your personal preferences and skill level. It's like wine, drink what you like.I'm a slacker for serious stuff, use *buntu on my desktop and one of my laptops. Didn't give OpenSUSE enough of a chance and rolled my own BSD and LOVED them all.

These may be long shots but read this bug description. Is this specifically the problem you're having? http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ Also, cat /etc/passwd and check what your login shell is. It's not /sbin/nologin which is good! What is it?

I tried - hard - to love GNOME. Just wouldn't happen. Without tip-toeing around the matter, Linus Torvalds made his preference in the GNOME vs. KDE matter quite clear on the GNOME-usability list: Update: More of the discussion here. From: http://www.osnews.com/story/12956/Torvalds-Use-KDE

I'm another Googler!Back in the day, I was way into Dogpile but Google is great for general searching and I love https://www.google.com/linux/ and it makes searching for scholarly papers easier. Oh and https://www.google.com/labs/ is interesting and so is gMail even though they're aren't as related to search.