On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Anders Johansson
Ask Apple users. It has been a major selling point for Mac OS for years. Next time you explain it to one of your customers, try this: it will run in the background the first time you start up, for a few minutes, depending on how many files you have. After this you won't even notice it's there and you'll be able to search all your files by content in an instant
Yeah, that was why everyone basically disabled Beagle. It DIDN'T work properly. Now we have npeomuk/stringi and this other one. How MANY of these things do we really need???? They should be set to use no more than 10-15% of the system period. Especially on a new install where someone is trying to get things running and starting to get some work done. And a few minutes is nowhere near the amount of time they take. Heck, on a fresh install, what exactly are they even indexing???? Unless you have other network shares or installed with existing storage what is the point of it indexing a fresh install? Windows XP does pretty much the same thing as Vista/7 with about 25-50% of the resources. And it's been proven repeatedly that Vista/7 isn't really more secure. So, what exactly is the system doing that requires all those resources? Some many things in Linux are on the same road. And there's still no easy why to disable things that some of us don't want/need. SuSE used to have a deserved reputation for a solid, STABLE system(yes there were a few versions that had issues). While I still use it(11.0) I gave up recommending it. It's a question of resources vs usefulness. The "average" person doesn't use a lot of things that "we" use. They: 1. Browse the web. They don't CARE about licenses or other stuff. They EXPECT that if they go to YouTube that they can watch a stupid cat video(or whatever). 2. They already have 50 things wasting processor resources on their "windows" system - Java, Quicktime, Antivirus, iTunes, and a host of other crap that the developers think that needs to run at startup and waste the systems resources that get installed automatically or because the user didn't see it or read it to disable the installation of it. Amazingly, if you turn all that crap off, you can actually use the system and it's responsive. 3. Read email. They generally use clients like Outlook or Thunderbird. Those programs already have decent search funtions in them. 4. They usually use some kind of Bittorrent client to download music and videos. These types of things generally give them malware and then I have to explain the US Legal stuff about why they aren't supposed to do that. 5. They expect to go to a website, download a program they want, and click to install it. They don't care about package managers. The Linux way means that we have to customize every program for every version of every distro. While the App stores are getting closer to how Linux does it, it's still nowhere near as easy for Linux as it is on Windows. Firefox for windows runs on 2000-7 with the SAME executable. For openSUSE, we have to support Firefox for several versions - 11.1(SLEx). 11.2, 11.3, 11.4. How exactly is this a better system???? How much storage space is used for Firefox installs over 200+ distros and their various supported versions? So, when I get the same system back in a few months, it's got the same issues and the same garbage running on it and then I get paid again because they don't listen. I use linux because it's secure and stable. I use openSUSE because of YaST and because I've actually used it for over 12 years. That doesn't mean I recommend it to my customers. I can just imagine the support nightmares with answering questions about why it doesn't work like Windows. No thanx. So why am I still around? My hope is that at some point I can actually help people(which is why I joined these lists to begin with) and because I still hope that things will eventually improve so I can return to the current. No idea if that will happen. Rant off. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org