Perfectly agree, didnt know.abt that list.. will definitely advise
everyone i know to stay away from licenses and updates ..and
Vistas...etc...as far as possible and check that URL before buying
stuff...
on a more realistic front though.... for whatever practical reasons
mainly Hardware vendors not readily embracing OpenSource or OpenSuse
;-)
somebody who has bought that wrong laptop and wants to run
linux.now..can easily give up with a very sad excuse like :
"Ah Linux just doesnt work on my laptop" ....
again not trying to be rude ...but am I being really mean if I
speculate 20-30% of first time Linux users give up for lack of "stuff
not working" and fallback on that M$ thing...and live happily ever
after...
Thx
Digz
On 1/9/07, Martin Mielke
Hi there,
far from wanting to sound rude... maybe it would be a good idea to check the so called Hardware Compatibility List (http://hardwaredb.suse.de/?LANG=en_UK) before compulsively buying anything... :-)
A for your question... maybe not for "all" but for most of them.
Cheers (and good night!), Martin
----- Original Message ---- From: Digvijoy Chatterjee
To: opensuse@opensuse.org Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 1:33:48 AM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Can you say ripoff - OT As much as I hate M$ , let me share my experiences with my new HP dv6171cl , laptop with AMD TL-52 dual core , 2GB Ram , M$ Media Centre. blabla.... I pick it off of the store , i run to my house to shrink the windows partition and install Opensuse-10.2 ok 1) Normal install breaks in partitioning ......good no worries 2) Safe Install goes through....uses nv for Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 ..kernel crashes repeatedly on trying to install libstdc++41-x86_64 , 3) Safe Install Suse-10.0 , hoping kernel is stable , now it crashes more randomly 4) Try and upgrade 10.0 to 10.2 ..install breaks in removal of unused packages 4.1) Install 10.2 in safe mode again... 5) i file X.org bugs in bugzilla.novell.com, reply is 'WONTFIX' please use nvidias proprietary drivers 6) I take another 2 days to get my nvidia driver compiled and running , by googling for hours to figure out that i gotta boot the kernel with noapic 7) In these two days , I try Ubuntu Dapper Drake , for all its worth , the live CD cannot even start X talk abt use friendly...ironic 8) I manage to insert nvidia.ko and restart X using sax , i have had an uptime of 3 days now. 9) My broadcom wireless ( bcm43xx.ko ) doesnot work gotta do some firmware stuff...etc..
I love Linux and Suse ,and i had no qualms abt struggling for 2 weeks before I am all set , do u expect a newbie to buy a laptop and break his head like this , or would he rather pay those exorbitant charges and get a peace of mind and use his laptop....
Is Linux really really ready for "ALL" Desktops ..????
Thanks Digz
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