Hello, Stephan Kulow írta:
I don't know if he has done any surveys, but I know quite a few people, who switched to (open)SUSE, because it did not have (wrong) assumptions about their hardware, but configure it themselves. The most popular problem these guys ran into is a blank screen after installation: monitor set up with wrong parameters. It is no problem with me (being a SuSE user from version 4.3 :-) ), but it is a valid problem for anybody just getting known with Linux...
People not knowing Linux will not know that their X config can't be automatically guessed. Not by having to press Next on the "Hardware configuration" screen. And people having this problem, can easily dig out the FAQ telling them to check the "detailed second stage" (text tbd) checkbox.
The guys I referred to were pretty computer literate (windows sysadmins), so they knew about monitor refresh rates, resolutions, etc., just did not have a chance to properly configure it during installation and got a blank screen. With SuSE they could configure it, and became happy SuSE users, even if they were on Linux course for a competing product :-) Bye, CzP --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org