Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2974 mails)

[Greg Thomas <ethant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Jerry Kreps wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 February 2001 08:14, Purple Shirt wrote:
> > So it took a co-worker of mine two years to hop onto our train, the
> <snip what can be read in many other posts>
> 
> Personally, I'm having an uncharacteristically tought time getting
> my Zip100 going is SuSE 7.1 and I'm a little cranky.  That's because
> I'm spoiled.  I've been use to rapid flawless installs so long now, that
> I discovered some of the fundamentals have slipped me.  Most of my
> problems with the Zip will, I think, boil down to my own arrogance in
> not reading the READMEs before I installed.  In fact, I haven't looked
> at the SuSE manual in since 6.1 or 6.2.  I'm looking at the 7.1 manual
> to night.  ;-)
> 
> But, even on it's best day, M$ can't approach SuSE on SuSE's (mine) 
> worse day.  
> 

Yes, because on SuSE's worst day one can still eventually solve one's
problems given supported hardware.  And with enough expertise even
problems with unsupported hardware can be eventually resolved.  Quite a
refreshing difference than to be held at the mercy of a proprietary
software provider.

Greg