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Fedora: Fine but frustrating

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"Are you quite sure that you feel what you ought to do?"
-- Pride and Prejudice, 1797

I am not. But I am determined to stick with Fedora 13. Only, it is so frustrating that I seem to be struggling with the simplest of things.

The minimal installation was so minimal, it forgot to ask me for a login and password preference and then when it finished, it wanted me to use a non-existent login and password to login to the OS. Needless to say, I had to start with the bloated "Graphic desktop" installation all over again and though, I was presented with customization choices, I couldn't really customize anything because I had no idea what any of the packages actually did! And anyway.. why is it that I need a login every time I power it on?! I can't seem to get past this. I hate having to log in to my own computer. I want the boot up to be faster.

I keep trying to install chrome and it says chrome installation had "finished" but I can't see it anywhere. And I hate that trackpad mouse tap behaviour only loads when the operating system loads completely. Before this happens you need to click that annoying trackpad button.

I knew it wasn't going to be easy, but I just thought this might be easier than the other zillion times I have tried.

Arrrrrggh.

But I am not giving up. I am starting on a book called "Introducing Fedora: Desktop Linux" today. 400+ pages later, if I am still struggling, maybe I will revisit Austen's predictable tome.
265 words · edited Sep 21, 2010

💬 5 comments

  1. paul ·

    You can set it to autologin but in general thus is really bad practice. Especially because you may have sensitive data on your machine. I also encrypt my drive. Did you choose that during install. Its a free option with fedora.

    There is also a good reason to use a under privileged account and need to enter in your password when installing new stuff. If you don't and malware gets on your computer which could easily happen if you don't understand your computer - then that malware can excute anything it wants as a privileges user and do things like open ports, install other malware etc.

    Its especially important when you install closed source executables you get off the internet. You carryyour laptop around. What if you got robbed? Do you want your data so exposed?

  2. tinypliny ·

    Good points. I feel like a spoilt kid fed too much windows and false securities.

  3. tinypliny ·

    I didn't want to have to deal with yet another layer that might potentially turn on me if I encrypted stuff so I didn't choose that option.

    This might be a weird thing to say but if my laptop does get stolen, I'd like it to be atleast usable to whoever than headed for trash. It makes me sad to think that they might find out that the hard drive or whatever is completely unusable and toss it in the bin.

  4. tinypliny ·

    turn on me - if I forgot the password, that is. I am REALLY bad at remembering passwords because by this time, I have millions of them. It gives me anxiety every time I face the prospect of yet another password and login.

  5. paul ·

    You should come up with a formula for passwords instead. Do something like the first three letters of the name of the system, plus your mothers birthyear and the last three of the month you were born in. I totally made that up, but you get the idea. That way you just remember the formula and it works for every system you use.

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