Linux drives me nuts !?

I am attempting to install a zd1211 firmware program for my Belkin USB wireless adapter. First of all, I would like to explain that I have been dealing with computers since 1987. Why can't Linux (in my case Fedora Core 6) Just have a designation such as 'install' or 'setup'? Apparently the terms productivity and efficency have not reared its ugly head in thier lexacons. When I click on 'Add/ remove programs the damned program wants to accsess the internet ! Would someone, employed at Microsoft, please defect to Linux and give these people a clue. If I told you the whole world is crazy, but I'm OK, what would you say? If Linux is even halfway serious about toppleing Microsoft, you Linux folks have got a long road ahead. Should anyone reply to this who is not from a Windows perspective, and advises me to take up programming in 'C','C++', Perl Bailey, Monty Python, or any language like that will hear a tremondous thud as my head explodes !

Linux drives me nuts !?
Get UBUNTU.
Reply:Sorry, I don't get what your problem is. If you're not interested in learning something new, what are you doing messing around with Linux? If you don't like Fedora try another distro or go back to Windows. What's the problem?
Reply:when microsoft stole technologies, they renamed the concepts and made it there own.





Isn't that cute!





Now that you want to learn what real operating systems have called things for decades... you have to un-learn your microsoft brainwashing!





people have been installing with tars and gzips and make scripts since the beginning of time()
Reply:Installing new hardware in Linux is often a headache. And finding out whether drivers even exist is often a pain as well. I think the problem that you are running into in general is that Linux companies do not much care about making Linux usable for desktop users but for servers, which tend to have more expensive, well-known hardware, as opposed to the low end PCs that most of us have that use the latest Wal-mart special variety of hardware. The best advice that I can give to you is that if you want a stable, usable desktop system that won't cause problems like this, then you need to go with Microsoft and if you can't hang with that, then make sure you look at the list of compatible hardware, and find the drivers and read the README and INSTALL files *first* rather than after you have got your hardware. And I had to learn this the hard way too.
Reply:Linux drives me nut as well bro they need to get with the times.