Ficedula: Set up a new swap partition (man mkswap), then edit fstab (man fstab) to use that swap partition.
The rest: Halkun is right. Linux is by programmers for programmers. Why would programmers make things user-friendly? Linux is user-friendly to us!
rant:
The greatest thing about Linux is the open source ideology, the fact that you can make a difference yourself. Installing it because Microsoft made it harder to pirate their software is in my opinion not the right reasons...Microsoft makes Windows to make money. Let them have money for Windows.
I still have problems with Microsoft: Every single piece of software they have written is inferior. Not talking about bugs and chrashes, I'm talking about technical solutions, programmers who doesn't know anything about the simplest rules of consistency and clean API design etc. etc. I have yet to see a decent piece of software from them. Office comes close but is broken because of propriotary file formats and no security: If you edit a document, it doesn't actually remove what you remove from file. If you insert a diagram, the entire spreadsheet with perhaps critical data is likely to follow, only to be discovered with a hex editor.
Then there's the ILOVEYOU virus, another proof that Microsoft fails no matter what they try. COM is a cool technology but the way they manage to mess up cool principles makes me sick...
But, if you want MS software, pay for it. I don't like paying for software because I'm against software patents (and also the overusing of copyright that is happening these days, copyright wasn't created to protect companies, it was created to make sure more money found it's way to science and art...when the money just goes in the big mens pockets we might as well abolish it). But, if you pirate software just because you don't want to pay for it is wrong. Have some ideology behind what you do...
end of rant
[This message has been edited by dagsverre (edited April 02, 2001).]