Per Jessen wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
My point isn't that it doesn't work perfectly well on some 10.1 systems, it does. My point, and the point of the bug, is that on some systems it is so slow as to be virtually unusable.
Michael The problem with what you just said is how does one decide that it is a "bug" because as you just said that it works perfectly on other installations?
If the same software works in significantly different ways on two relatively similar hardware setups, it is a bug. Whether it is a bug in SUSE Linux or caused by something else is the real problem.
I, and others, have posted in this forum problems I/we have with other bits of SuSE - either this latest version or earlier - and I/we either get no response because noone else is having the same hassle or get the same sort of response I made, ie "I get this result.....".
Unless you describe the problem in detail, and preferably provide some useful diagnostics, this is about all you can expect. Michael has describe the problem in some detail, has even told us he's been stracing and that there's an open bugreport. That's all pretty good stuff.
I have been describing my problems in some detail in the past - I've been on the other side of problem solving so know what I should or should not provide; having said this I also know that I sometimes provide terse information because I assume - probably incorrectly - that those who are reading can "add meat to the bones" and so save me some typing.
The bottom line really about this is that I have installed Windows on other people's computers which had a diverse sets of components and Windows always installs first up and works on all those systems; if I install Acrobat reader on a Windows computer it reads whatever pdf document I throw at it without blinking, and if I install ANY piece of software written for Windows it INSTALLS without first having to wank itself stupid deciding if there are dependencies which first need to be satisfied.
Basil, I'm not quite sure what you're saying here, but it sounds a little like you'd rather be working on Windows?
No, I would not rather be working on Windows. But I am afraid that I, and many others, are, unfortunately, forced to continue to work on Windows because something like SuSE - which I thought was finally "getting there" after many years - just doesn't cut the mustard. After trying out almost all the distros on the market I settled on SuSE which I considered had a future and had the ability to match the popularity of Windows. Until recently that is. Now it is just another floundering piece of software bobbing around in the pond, and a small one at that, without a solid and sensible captain at the helm to take it to port. All it has are little gnomes running around counting beans in their little mugs. I DON'T want to be working on Windows. But I have to. And this is what is making me so damn frustrated and making me angry. I thought that SuSE was what was going to get me out of the Windows mire - but I was wrong. Regrettably I also have a personality which attracts me to lost causes. So I will persevere with SuSE for the time being - until the time Novell gets itself into such a mess that it will become a target (if it isn't already) for M$ to buy it out and then SuSE will disappear. At which point, like Don Quixote, I'll start looking for a new windmill to play with.
Linux is not Windows.
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