Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Mike Grello <mgrello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is a tip for SuSE (and increasingly most Linux distros), if I wanted 
Windows I would've bought Windows.  If you are going to treat the user like 
an idiot, then (s)he should not have to have some smarts to fix what you 
broke.

Power went out the other day, when it returned the terminal switch was pointed 
to another machine.  The SuSE machine noticed it did not have it's (USB) 
mouse, so it started up YaST, when I switched to the SuSE system, I cancelled 
it, because I didn't want to make any changes.  Upon bootup the mouse didn't 
work.

Not a big problem for me because:
1. I have a backup of the XF86Config file (actually XF86Config.YaST.save).
2. I have another Linux system (no help, this time, down with a hw problem)
3. I know what I am doing.
Which are also all reasons I did not need the "help" that caused the problem 
to begin with, however someone who needed "help" would have been down for a 
while.

Honestly, I (and I am sure many others) am fleeing Windows screaming and 
flailing; please don't make Linux into another Windows.