Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (868 mails)

[Carl Hartung <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 7 May 2011 20:58:19 -0700
Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> People go on endlessly about whether Linux is suitable for desktop 
> purposes. Well, to be so, it needs to have content indexing.

Hi Randall,

I have no problem with these utilities being available, I just think
they should be /optional/, not installed by default.

And the present arrangement is not all that 'harmless' either.

I can remember at least three or four incidents ... until I figured out
what was going on ... where my time and attention were diverted from
working productively to suddenly troubleshooting and diagnosing an
unexpected sudden drop in system responsiveness with a sustained
grinding at the hard disk. Until I caught on, I was worried that my app
was going to freeze or X would crash or /something/ along those lines
was happening and my filesystem might get trashed or corrupted.

I say make them available but optional instead of 'springing it on
them' without warning.

regards,

Carl
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