On 06/14/2014 12:35 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.
Many of use have installed various versions including 13.1 successfully. Many of us have fought battles with reluctant hardware for all versions of Linux from a variety of distributors. That a specific version doesn't work for you yet works for many other people can be accounted for in many ways ranging from a dab download (did you check the MD5?) though hardware, mis-reads or mis-writes of the DVD (or even manufacturing errors of the DVD) or even lack of familiarity with a specific installer. If we are lucky we use an installer very rarely. While the KDE of the distribution is not "Current", it shouldn't be the problem you describe. But that doesn't mean Linux is broken. Many of us turn to the command line when faced with such problems. Zypper and yast have tools for integrity checks. Thinking about it, what you describe might be a Graphics Driver problem and not a Linux or KDE problem. That requires some patience, a little knowledge and consultation with the relevant experts here. Before condemning openSuse, Linux and 13.1 out of hand, perhaps you should try the command line and check your logs. -- An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org