On 21/05/06, Rikard Johnels <rikard.j@rikjoh.com> wrote:
Is seems to me, reading from a lot of the new installations made on this list. The main problem ppl very often crash into is the graphics department. Not getting the right resolution, image of center, not being able to set LCD's etc. And it most often boils down to a bad xorg.conf being created by Sax. Lots of the solutions are "Hand hack this", "Run with these and that debug/switch", "copy old config to new" and so on.
My question/ observation is; Is this really how a professional utility should work? You need quite a bit of expertise to fix the graphics setup. Especially with the newer cards. Its not the clearest and easiest for newcomers to fix a graphical problem. And most of the time as all they want to get is the new and shiny desktop. Alot of ppl dont care whats under the hood. (And doesnt understand)
Time to take a closer look as to WHY Sax cant set things up w/o screwing it self? Not saying that Sax is a total piece of.. Its a fairly nice piece of software. It just doesnt reach the high SuSE standard we expect to see.
Just my 2 cents....
-- /Rikard
Those people we hope to tempt from Windows are very likely to be the ones bad mouthing Linux as a whole with this sort of problem. It is 'sort of' acceptable when you have this problem with a freely downloadable distro' but certainly not when people are paying for it. I am surprised there haven't been cases taken to such bodies as Trading Standards (a UK official consumer body) with paid for distro's. It will happen and when it does it can only do harm to Linux as a whole. -- ============================================== I am only human, please forgive me if I make a mistake it is not deliberate. ============================================== PLEASE DON'T drink and drive it's not clever, it's just stupid. Kevan Farmer Linux user #373362 Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR