Given the near infinite configurability of Linux, it is almost impossible to write a GUI installer that covers everything. A GUI is very convenient, but is inflexible. For out-of-the-ordinary situations, you have to hand-tweak the system. In Linux this is possible, - try that in Window$. An example with SAX2. I have a Samsung TFT-LCD monitor which is very fastidious about video timings and clock frequencies. I tried to set it up with SAX2, but the results were pretty hopeless. What I then did was to take the mode line settings supplied by the manufacturer of the monitor, and copied them directly into XF86Config with a text editor. With those settings the display works as advertised on all resolutions (1024 x 768, 800 x 600, 640 x 480). A second peculiarlty is that I use an 1152 x 868 virtual screen, and a 1048 x 768 real screen. To get this in SAX2 is impossible. With my GeForce 400 card, a specific line has to be written into XF86Config. Again, once that was done, everything worked. All the instructions were and are available in the XF86Config manpage I recommend Linux primarily on the basis of choice - if you don't like YaST2 - then don't use it. You have the choice of hand adjustments. If you don't like SuSE, use another distribution. I used to be a RedHat user, and it is still running on my backup computer. Some things RedHat does better, some SuSE. I feel that I have improved my SuSE installation by copying features from the RedHat machine. No distribution is perfect. So what is important to me is that I am not constrained to follow SuSE. Perhaps I may change in the future - who knows? But the bottom line remains that I have the freedom to do so. Regards Basil Fowler