On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 21:28, Doug
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...
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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!
But I think that is a linux-wide problem. KDE 4 is crap and we all know it. What other distro besides RHEL/CentOS is shipping a working (3.5) version of KDE today? None, and only RedHat does it due to their release cycles. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org