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