Linux is great, open source is great, and the Web and servers are great. All great things. They’re just hard to configure. I’ve been trying to figure out how to set up a mail server and just run into roadblocks. Mostly, they stem from the fact that I don’t have any formal education in server administration, which is fine, since many if not most Linux admins don’t have such formal educations either. But many if not most Linux admins also live and breathe this stuff. While I am a web developer by profession, I don’t stay up until 3am hacking away at random programs, nor do I find ways of breaking my computer just so I can learn how to fix it. I like it when stuff just works ™, and Linux is a beautiful thing because it does just work… after it’s configured.

Linux just needs an Easy Button for people like me. I’ve come to recognize that that would make life a LOT easier.

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