I've been tinkering about with Linux distributions for some years now. I'd always get the system "just about working" and lacking the knowledge and inclination to tweak it until it was right, I'd eventually give up. Windows was always more convenient for me, I'd become lazy relying on GUIs to do all my configuring. Or was that just my excuse for not being technically competent enough? More than likely a bit of both. There were times where I'd sat down and started reading various HOWTOs, trying to get some service or other doing just what I wanted it to, but then there'd be dependency errors or even worse, no errors at all (at least visible ones) - the thing just refused to work. Nothing I'd read up to that point had referred me to the existence of error logs, let alone their locations.
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