I just wonder how something as trivial as sudo can be that infuriating. IMHO If you have come to hate IT, then NO operating system is going to save you. Aren't you kidding yourself (and us)? But you wouldn't be the first. I see it all the time, developers who just can't stand it anymore. I know one who went into farming and another one who openend a snack shop. As long as they get to stay as far as possible from computes. And it's not necessarily Microsoft that is to blame. You know what I mean. Clients who don't know what they want, fellow developers who produce a mess that you have to sort out, employers who expect you to put in overhours at any time, etc. Not everyone can live with that.

I think that it is more the principle now then anything, they won't listen to what i'm saying and this could have been resolved instantly by giving me a 16 inch like what I wanted instead of dictating to me what I don't want.........as far as I'm concerned, they can stick my laptop up there Indian posteriors......

I've tried SUSE and I don't like it, I have tried Guntoo and I don't care for that either, its just that the use Xfce.......I'm only litterate in gnome, which leaves redhat which I can't get to work.....PClinuxOS I can't get that to install but I'm very good with redhat.....but what I like doesn't work.....

I give up.......

Works for me.

The reason they did not give you a 16inch is because they don't sell any 16" laptops. There is either 15.4" or 17".

There are 16 inch notebooks, but they are not worth it and I only seen MSI models that have that size. One thing you loose workspace because they use a 16:9 ratio. Next hurts portability because of the size. Third very hard to find a carrying case that will fit it. Again a 16 inch notebook just makes you spend more money. A 16:10 resolution from a 15.4 inch or 17 inch notebook will give you more workspace to compensate for the title bar and/or task bar.

You should use the energy to fight for a notebook that will display all 16.7 million colors instead spending on a 16 inch notebook. Majority of notebooks comes with LCD screens that have 262144 colors which is far short of displaying 24-bit color.

If you want Dell or other corporation/government to fix or do something, you have to write a letter that explains your problem and what you like them to fix or to do.

What exactly is your problem anyway?

You know Gnome and only want that? Only RedHat can give you that? Any (almost any) distro can give you that. Not RH 9 of course - please don't ask why.
Should this mean Gentoo?
In almost any way I can decipher what you wrote - you are talking ... meaningless stuff.
Calm down and use less of ... whatever you might have been using.

Let me clarify. He is complaining about Dell not giving him 16" notebook, and I am stating that Dell does not currently sell 16" laptops; the closest sizes that DELL sells at the moment are 15.4" and 17"