to use it for what its good at.
And fix things because I had to.
Its not really harder to use, just not as flexible at making things work nor is it forgiving like apt-get.
Sometimes, if yum fails during a major update... the machine will fail to boot... prompting a "fixup" with an install disk as an emergency recovery disk.
Only once... but I almost had a smart SCSI controller get the best of me today. But I fixed its little wagon... It forgot the disk configs as it was running. I had added a "LV" through the scsi controller webserver its "ummm forgot everything including the Physical Drives.
Warm Reboot: Non-Operating System Found, no physical disks found either
Cold Reboot: Non-Operating System Found, but it saw all 8 drives.
Forced it to load the disk configs from the disks... Reboot...
Voila, booted into CentOS!
Gah I hate SMART SCSI Controllers!