On Sunday 27 April 2003 14:46, dep wrote:
begin Preston Crawford's quote: | Is that who's complaining, though? I get the impression that some | of the people whining about the hardware scan act like power users. | Couldn't a power user do a google search and find the answer? | That's the irony. Blame SuSE for holding your hand too much, when | the answer is pretty easy to find.
when the hardware scan locks the system during install on a blank drive, what may or may not be easily located on google is academic. -- dep
dep, I get the feeling you think of most computer users as incapable of installing an OS, or anything else for that matter. In part you might be right and I can see where you might have come up with an idea like that, but I think many fail to understand the type of person that would undertake installing Linux. Most people purchase a computer with everything already installed, right? Very few of those people, in fact the majority of those people never touch it beyond that. Sell them a computer with Linux installed and all the programs they are likely to need/want, give them access to the internet, etc. and you will never hear anything from them again either. Now we come to the others that decide there has to be something better available to use on a computer. Those are not your typical users. Those, although some don't, will do research, ask some friends, READ some manuals before undertaking this change. In order to understand what has to be done, then one needs to understand their hardware and that PCs are not all created equal. Again, a simple READ of either a manual or site/s will help you before you start. Problems after that? Hmmm, the manual spoke of a mail list, a support database, FAQs and the list goes on. You have to wonder sometimes why SuSE goes to the trouble of printing those darn useless manuals, don't you? ;o) For those that decide they already know everything and jump into installing without doing a bit of research beforehand, most will fall back to the manual or a mail list or a friend for help. I think you and others expect too much from a Linux OS though. You want it to read your mind, take care of everything without any problems so you won't have to whine about it being so unusable later. Nothing performs like that! Not Linux, not windows, not OS X or anything else available. With anything, if you invest the time into it, it will reward you many times over later. I realize this has gotten off the subject somewhat, but I don't think your complaining has any basis as good as SuSE 8.2 is now. Your reviews are bad and I suppose, to be an attempt at journalism, but that seems to be giving you some trouble too. :o) Not trying to be insulting, really, it's just that you don't seem to think things out before plunging head first into these things. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.5.9.1i --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...