Linux - Always making your life just that little bit harder

Today, I tried to install Java to my Linux machine (openSUSE 11 if you must know) - I'm sorry, but no one who is not a bloody tech genius could install it!! It is ridiculous, especially if you are coming from the windows world of IT, click one button and it installs, well completely FORGET IT.
Installing is fine, I was able to do that with ease, even though it is not as simple as windows - you have to go command line style :P - even a moron with a set of instructions could do it. Then you think WOOT!! I've done it, all ready to go, but you haven't and if you think that you have - you are officially a twat.
No No No No, its not as simple as that, because you have to do all the extra stuff that the windows installer does 'behind the scenes' by hand, like in my case linking the java files to FireFox - WHO CAN BE BOTHERED WITH THAT.
After about an hour of fiddling with it...........I got it to work <----- what a lie!!
After about two hours it was however working after the IT professional man (you know who he is, the mysterious computer man) had it working for me, even though it took him almost as long as me to come to terms with the piece of shite that is Linux installers.
I like Linux because it is all open source, you can see every file on the hard drive (unlike windows), all the applications are free, the OS is even free but seriously these things get on my nerves eventually mainly because they are not documented anywhere!!

So there is a lesson in this, if you want to be a happy simple IT user STAY AWAY FROM LINUX!!