Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[john B <Yochanon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 19:11, Chris Carlen wrote:
> Sorry folks, but as a long time Linux user since Slackware, and Linux
> kernel 1.2.8, who has tirelessly advocated Linux to my professional
> colleagues, hoping one day they would realize how much better Linux is
> to use on their desktops than Windows (but they never believe me, and
> maybe I don't believe it anymore either), I have become so disappointed
> with my recent experiences with Suse 8.1 that I really want to just give
> up.  Maybe I will try reviewing another Linux distro in a another few
> months when I have some more time.  But I have blown several days
> without acheiving even a modicum of useability out of this thing,
> uncovering nothing but quirks and bugs, that I just can't take it anymore.

  <snip>

  Hey...remember that the KISS principle and the saying 'If it ain't broke, 
don't fix it' , go hand in hand, together. Sure, *all* the *nix distros have 
their problems, but for a ten year old on the block, it's doing a damn fine 
job. It's not worth bitchin' and moanin' about something, because that won't 
help make it any better. If you didn't want to spend the money and jump on 
the bandwagon so quickly to have 8.1, then you should have waited a little 
while and watched. You pulled a 'windows user' by going out and buying the 
latest and greatest, before maybe waiting to see what happens to others (who 
are 'willing' to test the newest stuff out). Look at all the people with XPee 
who got the SP1, and are now having even *more* problems with it.
  So, instead of bitching, either do or don't take the time to let the people 
at SuSE know what's going on. After all, you spent the time writing up this 
long post, you could have used the time to make as long a post to SuSE. 
Right?
  What you did here was sort of like the little spoiled kid who gets a 
brand-new bike, but doesn't want to take it out on any dirt trails and maybe 
get it dirty or break something, so cries to daddy that he wants *another* 
bike to do that kind of stuff with. Ya see what I'm tryin' to say here? I 
don't mean it to sound like I'm raggin' on you hard, but I am raggin' a 
little bit about how you went about making this post sound.

  John