Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (626 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag 10 März 2008 schrieb Peter Czanik:
> Stephan Kulow írta:
> > Am Montag 10 März 2008 schrieb Felix-Nicolai Müller:
> > > Most users must configure their printer. Most user must configure their
> > > screen (imo a bad idea not to do it during installation as one might
> >
> > Do you have done surveys or are you just making it up?
>
> I don't know if he has done any surveys, but I know quite a few people,
> who switched to (open)SUSE, because it did not have (wrong) assumptions
> about their hardware, but configure it themselves. The most popular
> problem these guys ran into is a blank screen after installation:
> monitor set up with wrong parameters. It is no problem with me (being a
> SuSE user from version 4.3 :-) ), but it is a valid problem for anybody
> just getting known with Linux...

People not knowing Linux will not know that their X config can't be 
automatically guessed. Not by having to press Next on the "Hardware 
configuration" screen. And people having this problem, can easily dig
out the FAQ telling them to check the "detailed second stage" (text tbd)
checkbox.

Greetings, Stephan

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