It feels a little strange defending SuSE against an @suse.com, but here goes On Friday 24 May 2002 23.07, Michael Hasenstein wrote:
usb wrote:
... Would'nt have some difficulties out there, if used to linux whole yr life long, Yu, now, wd be forced to understand the M$ skills at once ?
I read comments out there abt multiple apps for linux, duplicate, triplicate,...
Are You sure there are'nt 5 or 6 browsers which work under M$ Window$ ?
But one is actually enough. In Linux, you have pages where you need to switch to the other browser, or if you just have netscape 6.2 (or 7PR1 or mozilla) you have the crash and freeze issues, apart from mem. usage. Just MS IExplorer seems to be enough for all webpages out there, it seems.
Yeah, right. Did you read the opera story last year? Did you try to read their press release on the web with IE?
I'm not complaining about diversity as such, I'm complaining about having essential features distributed over var. different applications, in Linux made worse because of all these different windowing toolkits with different looks and behaviours. I consider "usability" and "stability" essential functions, that's why just netscape/mozilla (stability) for browsing or gimp (usability) for graphics is not good enough.
Can't comment on gimp since I'm as far from a graphical artist as is humanly possible to be, but from 6.2 onwards I've had no stability problems with netscape at all. And mozilla has been like a rock. And in your other post you say that linux won't be on the home user desktop. I very much disagree. I have installed it on several "average" user's computers (average more or less meaning computer illiterate) and they've had zero problems. In my experience, the requirements of the average user have been surpassed a long time ago in linux. Most people just don't need 95% of the features in either windows or linux. There's still a while to go for the gamer, or windows power user, but for well over 80% of the home users out there linux has everything for their needs. SuSE has traditionally had a problem with overwhelming the user with too many applications. For me, that's called choice, for a novice it's called problems. That, to me, is the second to last hurdle SuSE has to overcome. The last is OEM preinstalls. That is the real key. //Anders