On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Rajko M. <rmatov101@charter.net> wrote:
Problem is that majority of supporters do a lot to help those with KDE4, and spread a message about OBS.
But then you have those that feel the need to constantly bash people who have found issues with it. When it's pointed out that those with accessibility issues can't use it, there are no solutions forthcoming.
Well majority, seems to stick with forums, Usenet, IRC even Facebook/Myspace/YouTube openSUSE communities seems to be comparable or bigger then ML. What I do read here, on couple of KDE ML, in forums.opensuse.org, around the web (google opensuse) is not near as tragic as you see. Users en mass go for extra repos, in any distro, that provide 4.2.2.
Perhaps not, but for those who are new to Linux or openSUSE, they may not have the familiarity or even know where to get help. I've read several posts on the web about how someone new to openSUSE couldn't figure out how to make things work and gave up. Hack, my first Linux install was RedHat 5.0. I didn't do much with it. It was finding a copy of SuSE 5.3 at my local bookstore and installing it that I found out whAt linux could do. Not having a high speed connection made trying to installl other stuff almost impossible for me, but the distro itself and what it provided were rock solid.
I gave you in another post link to small periferal feature that makes desktop look really cool, with neon glove below windows instead of dark shade. Is desktop slower, no. I have forgotten to upload settings that make old PCI nvidia FX5200 run with desktop effects as fast as without, but I'll do it right now.
Thanx, but none of that means anything to me. I'm on my Thinkpad A22p with an ATI Mobility M3(basically a Rage128). KDE4 was almost unusably slow on this machine, where KDE3 is very fast. I even had issues on my Celeron DualCore with an nVidia 6200 in terms of speed. I repeatedly asked that KPersonalizer be ported to KDE4 for those of us who could care less about eyecandy. I turn off all of that stuff. I probably shouldn't have even posted. My feelings on the current state of openSUSE have been well known. I do appreciate all the support and help I got from Olaf and the rest of the devs that I have worked with since 2005 when 10.0 was in beta. I just don't think that the direction openSUSE is taking is the one I want. I want a lean fast system, and I can't get that anymore. I had 11.0 on my Powerbook Wallstreet with a G3/266. It wasn't really usable with a desktop. I installed SuSE 7.3 which was provided to me by a list mate and it was incredible. I'd love to see that kind of performance with some newer programs like Firefox v3. But, I've been told that's not realistic. Oh well. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org