On Friday 29 April 2005 05:34, Jan Elders wrote:
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 16:11, Basil Chupin wrote:
An interesting article about v9.3 to be found at www.theinquirer.net. The article is titled, "SuSE 9.3 fails home-use test".
It's also interesting to see the seemingly "narrow mindedness" of many Linux lovers in this thread. Why such fierce reactions ? What's wrong with some reflection and self-critcism on Linux ?
I myself am a SuSE Linux user for several years now (since 7.3) and will continue to use it, but I also recognize and agree with a lot of the statements in the article. I love Linux when I have it configured correctly,but it takes a lot of effort, time, and perseverance to get the system that you want/need.
Some personal experience examples : * Buying "any" 54Mb wireless PCMCIA card and plugging it in under Linux will hardly ever work right away. In that "other" OS it does, usually. * It requires quite some studying/searching before you get the € (euro-sign) big snip> Nevertheless, although I am many times tempted to return to W$$, I won't give up on Linux. I still like it a lot. But again, some reflection and self-critcism on Linux won't hurt to my opinion.
Cheers, -- Jan Elders the Netherlands http://www.xs4all.nl/~jrme/ "Home of the Network Acronyms"
I agree with you, and have had a great list of problems with Linux. I won't list them all but (a) got three months run-around from SuSE installation support, and ended up buying newer version of OS (b) Yast has totally fallen over - now do everything the hard way (c) under 9.0 HP 6110 scanner worked, not printer, but under 9.1 printer works, not scanner ... so turned to XP machine (I don't have time to be a Linux guru). AND: Take a look at how long some Linux people have been trying to solve their problems: for example, look at the following threads: Re: [SLE] Alert Re: 9.3, usb, scanners And you all know there are many more. *** I am still keeping my chin up for SuSE, but would rather see it made more robust (bugs removed) than see new functionality added, and I want to see it "lick the pants off" M$ Regards, Colin