The Ink-Pot and the Palette

There's nothing like burning a bridge or two to make you look at the landscape before you more critically.

Now that I've jettisoned Windows altogether in favor of Linux, I'm forced to face the fact that Linux, while amazingly user-friendly, good-looking and clean on its surface, is still VERY geeky under its one-electron-thick Graphical User Interface.

Case in point: Google "ubuntu sync windows mobile 6". That would be my attempt to find out whether I can synchronize my phone with my home computer.

First result is a forum. This is ALWAYS a sign that what you're looking for still exists only in the geek-o-sphere. Scroll way, way down in the forum and you find instructions. The instructions start like this:

In a terminal, type:

Code:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

In a terminal, type code...

*sigh*

I mean, it's not impossible. I remember MS-DOS. I remember command prompts. But there's not the slightest chance that anyone with less computer confidence and less free time than I have will tackle it.

On the other hand, my brain is alive with the sound of learning.