On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Colin Carter wrote:
On Friday 29 April 2005 03:23, JB wrote:
On Thursday 28 April 2005 08:07, Colin Carter wrote:
On Thursday 28 April 2005 00:11, Basil Chupin wrote:
An interesting article about v9.3 to be found at www.theinquirer.net. The article is titled, "SuSE 9.3 fails home-use test".
Cheers.
Yes, this aticle describes how I feel.
I also wanted, with all my passion, that SuSE be better than M$. After 40 years of technical programming experience I am still struggling with the SuSE system (eg YAST falling over, chasing / searching for stuff etc) after a year of SuSE.
I'll keep trying with SuSE, but if I want something quick I "fall back" (ie backwards) to my XP laptop. What can I do? My CD burner suddenly produces crap, unreadable disks under SuSE; obviously it is quicker to start up my XP machine and burn it there then to waste yet more time trying to debug the SuSE system. I am tired of fighting modern products. (That applies to choosing a shampoo ...)
I had hoped to drop M$ completely, but SuSE keeps driving me back.
Sorry Linux gurus, but I don't want to be a "Linux guru", I want to write application code on a robust, easy to configure O.S.
Regards, Colin
Yet you're some kind of programmer and can't figure out an OS as easily as many 'non' programmers...regular everyday 'Joes', like my 65 year old mom (who practically begged me to put Linux on her system, that's how sick and tired of M$' shit she was). What great and exciting and field leveling apps have you made that have rocked the computer world anyway? Maybe you should be called 'Stupor Programmer Man'.
Just as I said: Your Mum had a guru install Linux for her! My 83 year old Dad did him himself on XP.
I joined this list to hopefully get a question answered. This thread has been interesting. One problem I see with the discussion is that apples and oranges are being compared. If you just want a basic system to surf the web, send and receive email, write and print a report; there's little difference between installing WindowsXP and SuSE 9.3. SuSE, probably, has the edge: one DVD, a half dozen mouse clicks, and an hour later your done. For the same capablility, you will need to install WindowsXP and Office. Two DVDs, a half dozen mouse clicks, several hours and reboots later you will be done. This is for the "average" home user. It also assumes that his system contains the most widely used components. It's the "power user" and the "geek" that have the problems with both WindowsXP and SuSE. Neither operating system supports all of the devices that we may select for our systems. Occassionally, I use WindowsXP to do work at home. To use some software package, I needed to "upgrade" to WindowsXP. I had to buy a new system because WindowsXP didn't run on the systm that I had. Of course, this led to another problem. BSD/OS, my OS of choice, wouldn't run on the new hardware. I ended up moving to SuSE. Unfortunately, SuSE didn't support all of the hardware on the new system. Merton Campbell Crockett -- BEGIN: vcard VERSION: 3.0 FN: Merton Campbell Crockett ORG: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems; Intelligence and Exploitation Systems N: Crockett;Merton;Campbell EMAIL;TYPE=internet: mcc@CATO.GD-AIS.COM TEL;TYPE=work,voice,msg,pref: +1(805)497-5045 TEL;TYPE=work,fax: +1(805)497-5050 TEL;TYPE=cell,voice,msg: +1(805)377-6762 END: vcard