Ha ha ha
Mr. Coles, the reason I am laughing is because I thought the same thing as
you do, and as a Total beginner of linux and a user from windoz 3.1 through
to Xpop.
It was totally strange to me when I installed and started using my SuSE 8.1,
and all those adjustments and settings, etc. Exspecially when your use to
having the OS do it for you with and without the defects that come with it.
As you know some of those defects are still there from the early and people
are still waiting for them to get patched up. Linux on the other hand has
given the possiblity of thousands of dedicated Linux Users to help solve
most of these patches from one day to the next.
My solution for you as I have done is to use both systems until you get used
to fine tunning your, and I mean your Linux system to do what you want it to
do. BTW that is what the Lilo is there for in Linux and not only that you
can change the boot squence to what you want.
Regards
Ralph Robinson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Coles Jr."
To:
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2002 7:34 PM
Subject: [SLE] Too Difficult
Why do I have to fight SuSE to get so darn little done?
1. I want to grip cd's, can't. some crazy problem with my sound card, then
get that fixed (on my own no less) and now I can't see the music cds from
grip, or koncd, or kscd etc., why? Works fine under Mandrake, RedHat,
others, but not SuSE.
2. I want to install on a laptop and run wireless. Can't SuSE doesn't
recognize the Wireless NIC or the built in modem. RedHat does, and Mandrake
does.
3. I want to install all the "devel" packages so I can compile downloaded
apps, like a much newer everybuddy. Takes 1.5 hours to manually select all
the devel packages that the "select all Development packages" check box in
the install routine DOES NOT SELECT! Why can't "ALL of KDE" really mean
"ALL of KDE"? The same for the rest of the package selections? Why do I
have to manually go in and select the rest? And in 8.1 THERE IS NO menu
option to save the selections to a floppy or file, why not? If you are
going
to make me spend over 1.5 hours selecting crap that should get selected by
default, and least give me an easy way to save my selections so I don't have
to do it again!
You want to know why people go back to Windoze? This is why. I am tired of
fighting my PC to get little to nothing done. I am tired of fighting CUPS
to
get anything printed, the NIC drivers to stay on the net, etc. and on and
on.
You should not have to be a Linux expert and spend hours and hours
configuring
your box to get simple things done.
Why do I want to use SuSE? Their update process is the best, I paid $80 for
it, and I like the look and feel of the whole distro. but if I can't use it
what good is it?
Right now, my main machine has some wacked out problem with the video. IF
it
leave it sitting for about 5 - 10 mins my screen gets horribly scrambled
like
there is some frequency signal causing problems.
I also can't figure out what wierd thing happened to my cdroms.
I have a DVD player, and an HP cd burner. Both on the second channel of the
ide controller. The DVD ROM is the master, which would make it /dev/hdc and
the burner slave, /dev/hdd. the burner shows up as /dev/sr0 ( which I
believe is ide-scsi channel 1) But, for some reason if I manuall set me cd
player to use /dev/sr0 and put a cd in the dvd rom it plays!!! So I change
the cdrecorder to point to sr1, now I can't burn cds!!!
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See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!
"The act of faith is the obedience of the understanding to God revealing,
and
the product of that is the obedience of the will to God commanding."
Matthew Henry, on Romans 1:5
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