On 8/13/2010 6:17 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Doug<dmcgarrett@optonline.net> [08-13-10 14:15]: ... 105 lines deleted
With one notable exception, I recommend PcLinuxOs.
In an openSUSE support forum?
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Run your PCLinusOS, be happy and support them in their missing lists, for your comments here are also trolling, ie: not contributing!
I must disagree. I _am_ contributing to Mr. Radule Soskic, who was quoted by Mr. M. Dunsavaage. A small piece follows: (Quote)
Six years ago I used to advocate linux among my windows-using friends quite a lot. I was not just plain enthusiastic but very successful in that regard too. Contrary to then popular belief, linux installations (suse in particular) were rock-solid stable and reliable, secure, yet simple to teach, learn, and everyday use.
Is it so today? I am afraid not, at least at this particular moment in time.
The rock-solid appearance is pretty much ruined. I experienced frequent dolphin crashes, plasma multi activity setup crashes, desktop effects crashes, device notifier crashes, etc...
(Unquote) I suggested that there is at least one Linux distro that seems to be solid and doesn't have a lot of what he was complaining about, and I named it and said why, as well as admitting that it's not perfect. (What is?) And yes, I am at least temporarily out of the SuSE loop, but having been in it for quite a few years, I keep my ear to the ground, and hope for good news. From everything I have read about version 11.3, the news is _not_ good, what with dumping of programs and formats that a lot of people like and want, in favor of what apparently only a few developers would like to play with. I think they're playing with themselves! I pointed out that there seems to be a way that KDE 4.4.5 (at least) can be tamed, and made palatable, even if SuSE and Kubuntu haven't decided to go that way. I also noted that PcLOs (and some of the other distros I've looked at, including even Puppy Linux) have no trouble rendering sound, right out of the box. The last post from the SuSE list, 20 minutes ago, has "Sound problems" as a subject. For what it's worth, I might still be running 11.1 if the everlasting sound problems had ever been addressed and solved, over God only knows how many releases. I do not put any blame on anyone here--the good people of this list tried hard to help, but apparently that wasn't enough. Perhaps I'm just not geek enough to understand. And yes, I'm now seated in front of the hated (by some) Windows machine. It just happened to be handy. I have Linux on the machine 4 feet to my left, and I could be writing this there. On the same mail program. And no, I'm not crazy about Win7, either, but _it_ will not only play sound, it will run AutoCadLT. And WordPerfect, which I still think is superior to Open Office, altho not by a whole lot. BTW, Mr. Shanahan, I _did_ contribute something else useful to this list only a few weeks ago; at least it was useful to someone, who said thank you to me. Nothing world-shaking--I'm not geek enough. But useful. --doug -- Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org