I've been reading this thread for some time, and while I personally could care less which OS anyone likes or uses, I have to stick my two cents in here too. It seems that the typical newbie response to the free apps that come in a typical Linux distribution is to immediately compare them their Windows compliments. As in, third-party tools for which they have paid a considerable fee. If you want quality apps, for any environment, you are going to have to pay for the privilege. Get over it. Comparing gimp to PhotoShop is like comparing MSPaint to PhotoShop. vi to Word 2000. I too could go on. There are an ever increasing number of high quality apps that the serious personal user or corporate administrator can rely on to bolster the standard issue freeware. For a dose of reality, try comparing MSPaint (free) to gimp (free). KWord or StarOffice to WordPad. KDE (free), KDevelop (free), Yast (free) with... er... nothing! ;-) In my corporate arena, over which I exercise significant influence, I can get more done, for less money, in the same timeframe, with less people (albeit of a higher skill level), using Linux than I can with Microsoft. (And, yes, someone in this government DOES care about such things.) I'll go back to sleep now. -----Original Message----- From: David [mailto:dg@stanwater.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:23 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [SLE] NEWBIE Questions Ok perhaps I had better qualify that. I agree that out of the box Suse was ok. The sound card though works 80% of the time. The video (NVidia) was ok, didn't seem to like the 3d option. Don't know about printing, haven't tried that. Speed is the main issue. After Windows it is slow, don't know why. I have asked about this in many places, but no one can give an answer or a solution. The other thing is screen resolution. The fonts are so badly formed it gives me eyestrain. Enabling anti aliasing makes it worse. Putting that to one side, it is fine if you like the apps that come with the distro, but they don't suit me. Take word processing, there's Kword, Abiword etc., but they don't suit me the way that Word 95 does. This is not a Linux/Windows war, it just suits my way of working. Then there is Gimp - good program but it isn't Photoshop by a long way. CAD - I use Turbocad. CAD programs are very individualistic anyway even within Windows. I could go on. You have to stay within in one environment to be productive, so the only possible way to use Linux is either to use an emulator, I am just trying out Vmware and don't know how successful that will be, or just as a more efficient firewall. I know you won't agree with this, but you probably have different uses for your machine. On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:55:25 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
With the SuSE 7.x series I think I've spent in total about 1 hour setting things up to a working configuration, to the best of my recollection.
Making>things secure takes a bit more thinking, but then again that's true for any OS.
Actually quite straightforward setting up, except it is not secure. Regards, David -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com