On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 19:21 -0400, Larry Stotler wrote:
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (amedee.be)
wrote: Hello, I am new to opensuse. What should I think of this discussion? It's always the same on this list, every week the same kind of discussions over and over.
Yeah, it does get to be like a broken record around her sometimes.
I think Opensuse is a bad distro. Not because of the software, but because of the mailing list. There are hardly any "technical" topics left, only rants. And now I'm doing it too...
So it's not a bad distro, only the communication with the developers as well as the quality of the mailing list could be better. I concur with this.
Well, thanx for joining the club! Always good to add a new member.... :-)
It's been my stance that the devs seem to forget the people don't make use of these lists and they don't communicate changes to the userbase very well(like the 1 click upgrade for KDE4.2).
My question to you is how long have you been using openSUSE? That will help me gauge how long others are using the distro before they try to join the community.
I am using Suse since the 8.2 distro and started with Linux in 2001. Unix experience starts around 1990. Xenix even more earlier. Late 2008 I decided to try some OpenSuse mailing lists because I ran into some issues with QEMU and KVM - for which I did NOT received any usable reaction, but found the answer myself with the new 84 KVM release and using 2.6.29-rc1->8. So, do have the mailing lists some use? Yes, albeit only on minor details. But maybe I subscribed to the wrong mailing lists. BTW: no single Linux distro is really ready for the average consumer who is used to use Windows only. The problem is that people have some experience with Windows and expect the same user "friendliness" from any Linux distro. This is not so much a matter of average applications - not being games etc - as it is to attaching peripheral devices. It's certainly not always flawless in Windows, but hé people expect this not to be flawless anyhow when using Windows. Which is different from the expectation when they switch to Linux. Frans de Boer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org