On 26/04/11 21:27, C wrote:
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:58, Basil Chupin wrote:
finally got the latest driver installed. (I really pity the poor buggers who come in into oS from scratch and without any background knowledge :-( ). openSUSE is 1000x easier to install than Windows 7 in my experience. I've installed Win7 Ultimate (for testing) on two computers... an Asus EEE 1005HA netbook, and a Zotac ZBox mini PC. In both cases, NOTHING worked properly. The install itself was not much different than openSUSE.. start the install and click a few times. After it was up and "running" things fell apart. In openSUSE, after install, everything works (WiFi, Fn keys etc)... in Windows 7, I have to hunt down drivers all over the place for every bit of hardware in the computer... I had to update the BIOS on the Asus to be able to just INSTALL the Fn key driver. Without the BIOS upgrade (which was a nightmare in itself), the install popped up error after error. On the Zotac, I still cannot get the network card working in Windows 7 after weeks of tinkering (it won't transfer data faster than 550kbps)... among other significant driver and performance issues,
So, yes it requires some tinkering to get openSUSE working, but from my experience, it's a LOT easier, and more logical/straight forward than the competition.
C, I understand this, and know this, and, as they say in the moving-pictures (and which, nowadays, actually have sound! - how things have changed over the years! :-( ), "Been there, done that!" (Before installing oS I installed XP first just in case I needed to use some part of it; but I only installed the very basic part 'cause I just couldn't face all the crappola of looking for drivers and drivers and drivers and drivers...... :'( .) But this argument is now becoming more than just a little thin in this year of 2011 AD when Linux distros have been around for at least (tongue-in-cheek) 10 years.
With openSUSE we've got the Wiki, the forum, and the mailing lists...
"Datsa nisa, butt howwa eet gonna feeda my bambinos, eh? Kapeesh?".....
what do you have if you're using Windows and things go wrong? There are no centralized sources of help like we have here.
I have my neighbour's 12-year old son to help me out....... Aaaaah, of *course*! There is always google-doogle! Provided you are prepared to read 50 million entries which may just fit one of the words in your "search for this word" request :-) . I honestly think that the time has now long gone when Linux users can keep using the fall-back argument of, "But look at how much trouble XXXXXX gives you not only with installation but with viruses et al." The age of the Linux geeks and propeller-heads and Linux users' ancient catch-cries have gone well past their use-by dates. BC -- "My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I am going to be an uncle or an aunt." Chuck Nevitt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org