Don't you guys see how much *trouble* Linux or at least OpenSuse is? Just being on this list without using Linux makes it clear to me how much amazing much *trouble* this system is every day. A bit of distance makes you appreciate that. How much my current life is pretty much problem free (in that sense) except from some weird anomalies in my Microsoft turd-system I didn't have before. All these emails that come by are of a level of running around with a bucket trying to quench fires here and there and there and there. They are problems that should never even exist. KDE all white as root. What the. I keep being amazed by it, that people subject themselves to such nonsense, that I have in the past, and that I probably will in the future, if there is any future. Which is why I would probably want some mini-linux running in a VM giving me access to the tools, but none of the -at least- user interface problems for a GUI. It's a shame that in my last VM attempt network access from guest to host was *really* slow and apparently caused by some ...limitation of VirtualBox. Linux is so badly contained, its scope so badly designed, that problems everywhere are pretty much guaranteed by its design principles. If you want a system that is rife with problems, Linux is a good way to start. Not a bad contender. People always complained that competing commercial systems from the big vendor at One Microsoft Way were big problem machines, but I never quite understood that. Until this recent time, my Microsoft (...) existence had been completely problem free. Except for the issue that installing a system takes too much time, and there is no good way to reinstall the apps / programs you use onto a new system without all the hassle. And then when you create a system image... well that's another story. I never installed any updates so that is one problem gone. I didn't use anti-virus so that is one problem less. The only big glaring omission that is actually there but not really usable, is symlinks. There are no good symlinks in MS Windows crap. Which just sucks big time. Linux's scope is actually defined as "there is no scope, at least not one that you will know, ever". I believe not many people even understand what "scope" means. I never heard anyone talk of it in the linux world. Or "containment". Well, I guess. It just amazes me what kind of problems come by daily here on this list, problems that all of them should have been solved by someone long ago with proper design "intensives" or "incentives". They are problems people shouldn't be dealing with. Problems that shackle you to the ground, forever fixing stuff that shouldn't even be broken. I guess, that drain your energy and keep you tied to a lesser existence? Linux is typically a system that becomes its own raison d'être. Linux then is the end, not the means. You use Linux in order to improve Linux, but not for actual work. Not for leasure. Not for excitement. Not for play. Not for fun. The promise of those things is somewhere at the end of the road, but it feels like the bloody labyrinth from the Death Gate cycle by Weis & Hickman. In those books a people has been placed inside a very dangerous labyrinth as a form of penitentiary. They were judged to be faulty people in need of an education. So the ones who won the war designed a world with gates and when the conquered people would finally have overcome all challenges, they were assumed or would have proven to now be "decent" people. Which they weren't before. But the magicks of those victorious people kinda didn't work out and the labyrinth turned against its inhabitants and became a terribly and terrifyingly hostile world. And at the end was still the promise of liberation. The ones who could escape the labyrinth could expect a peaceful and abundant life in a better place. But few ever did. Most got stuck and cities arose even within the early levels. They built up their arsenal and equipment and life and perhaps tried to move to the next gate when the time was ripe, but slowly. Because anywhere you ventured was lethal. And Linux feels like that with its promise of happiness at the end of the road. Microsoft is adopting Linux's nature with Windows 10; Windows 10 is at times horribly broken but SOMEDAY PERHAPS everything will in the end work. Just wait long enough for enough updates! And they're being forced down your throat too, these days. I don't even know why Microsoft is even a name still worth mentioning. I don't know why we're not using some Google OS or whatever. Why don't we have the OS from this anime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-PkAQcuZOw (just a song). Takes too much time to find that opening with the operating system though. It was pretty wicked. Anyway. Goodbye. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org