even with all the help i've received on this mailing list from the manuals the man pages and various help forums online not to mention friend and the library of knowledge
linux isn't ready for the desktop market for one reason it's just too hard to use that i've picked up over the years of computer geeking
i still can't get my ati all-in-wonder radeon to function properly in kde tuxracer doesn't even work
now kde has it's own host of bugs but until installing and running
linux won't score any points in the desktop market ps and don't tell me i'm just too dumb to use it a computer is a tool and like any other tool it should be easy to use linux is more powerful for its customisability but if i can't just download one program that scans my machine and grabs what i need off the web i'll keep my windows box
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 08:07 pm, gabriel, you wrote: the os is as easy as "point, doubleclick, ok, ok, ok" thanks ---------------------------------- Gabriel, I suspect you are quite the opposite of "dumb", it sounds that at least you tried your hand at Linux and may even still have something setup with it. I think you will probably be back when you once again become disgusted with Windows. I came to SuSE from the Amiga looking for an OS as stable and configurable. I had never actually used Linux before, even though the AmigaOS is somewhat loosely based on Unix. I have to use Windows & MacOS in my work, so I am familar with those as well. SuSE Linux has proven to be as easy an OS to use and setup that I have seen in a long time. I think one of the problems with Linux as was with AmigaOS is that it is so darn configurable! That in some ways makes it hard to use, because you just can't leave it alone! If someone just did the install using automatic installation and never messed with it outside the GUI, it is as easy to use as anything available. But, as I suspect this was one of your problems too, most people just can't stop there! They have to tweak, add on, change things, etc until they run into problems, then whine about how difficult it is to use. I ran across this in the schools here when I setup the Amiga computers for them. As long as they stayed in the setup, no problems, but they just couldn't do that. That was one reason the Apple computers were better starting systems for them, because the OS is so restrictive and makes them stay just in one area. Windoze tried to do that too and succeeded somewhat, but they ended up messing more things up than fixing them and of course the antiquated hardware didn't help either with all the IRQ problems, slow bus and memory limits. Anyway, I digress and didn't mean to go off in this long winded reply, I just wanted to point out some things that actually say that Linux is ready for the Desktop and SuSE leads the way for that. The problems you pointed out that you had are not unusual, but I suspect your original setup/install worked pretty well for you? end of line Tracer -- ---KMail 1.3--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb