installation. (Score 1)

If you *really* wanted to get Linux installed, and by yourself, you could have just spend maybe $400
for the same (or similar) hardware that you just bought, and loaded RedHat (or Debian, SuSE, Slack)
and just merely followed the prompts (accepting the defaults) and loaded everything.

No muss, no fuss (unless you bought deviant 3rd world hardware made by Sadam & Co.).

After all, that's what the vendor did when they sold you the "preconfigured/preinstalled" Linux box.

Dreams of writing your first column from the Linux box? Using what editor? I hope you choose vi, the
only *real* editor..

what's that cackling?

-vE