C wrote:
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 6:35 PM, Tony Alfrey
wrote: The installation of 13.1 is a complete, broken mess. Supposedly everything went fine, but KDE is simply totally broken. It presents me with a screen with no taskbar, strange fragments of boxes that open sporadically as I try to create a panel or widget, strange blobs of stretched fonts. Stuff that appears and disappears on the screen at random.
There is no sense in spending any time with this whatsoever. There was a time long ago when I tried to convince Windows users that they should switch to linux and that installation and setup was transparent. That time has long since passed.
Thanks all for your help.
Huh? What happened?
I can't imagine what broke. I've installed 13.1 dozens of times on almost as many different hardware combinations, and it's absolutely fine every time. KDE4 in 13.1 works flawlessly. It's not broken at all after install - assuming a default install with out any tweaking it has always "just worked" on every single install I've done.
C.
I simply followed the directions. It asked me if I wanted to install various repositories, I said yes, it seemed to find them, it just plodded along without giving any error messages or conflicts. It's possible that there is a flaw in the disk image, but when I try to perform the checksum procedure that is described on the SuSE page, my Mac complains that there is no recognized filesystem on the disk. Now I downloaded a different ISO. The first one claimed that it was 4.4 GB. Now this one claims that it is only 1.8 GB. I click on the image to open it: "image not recognized". This is completely useless! Just for grins, I went back and looked through my linux notes. I still have the receipt for the first linux box that I built in 1999! I had never even run Windows at that time; I was looking for an upgrade to my horrendous John Scully-era Mac. I haven't been very current recently, because I haven't needed to, but I've done this linux stuff since the time that the entire OS would fit onto two floppies. Linux has simply lost its relevance. -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org