On Wednesday 31 July 2002 17:58, Salman Khilji wrote:
I am getting increasing more and more annoyed and dissatisfied with Linux.
With Microsoft Windows there is much more consistency. Windows ME is unstable and crashes a lot. But so it is for everyone on the planet.
Linux? For some people kdesu konqueror works, for some it does not. For me switching to the standard kernel down from the SMP one solved this problem. for you, apparently it did not.
I get strange problems on my home machine with my nVidia card when logging out and loggin back in (basically it goes into a blank screen mode until I hit ENTER)---apparently others dont' see it. My office machine has nVidia on it and it runs perfectly.
I wish things were a little more consistent.
Salman
Salman, Belive it or not, if you could get the hardware makers to follow standards, then things would be more consistent. The problems you have run into, I could attribute mostly to hardware problems. Yes, everyone will come back and say; "well Windows works with it"! Yes, it might or might not according to the drivers supplied for a buggy OS to run the hardware. I think Linux is doing a very good job with all the inconsistent hardware out here and the user needs also to be a little more selective when choosing articles for a computer, if they plan to run Linux on it. As Anders mentioned, most, if not all, the "linux bugs" can be fixed even with flakey or troublesome hardware, as I just found out myself. So before you blame the LinuxOS, yell at the hardware makers to either supply Linux drivers, make the hardware specs available to the developers or standardize the hardware, so that problems like you experienced don't come up. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Amiga, SuSE Linux, PC Sales & Service Magic Page Products