On Saturday 30 November 2002 17:02, Ali Naddaf wrote: [stuff cut]
On Saturday 30 November 2002 15:39, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:17 pm, Ali Naddaf wrote:
Howard,
If you feel more comfortable with Windows, please consider switching back. After all, variety is the spice of life and some prefer Windows to Linux and some Linux to Windows and neither is right nor wrong; these are personal preferences. If Linux is not working for you, the right thing for you is to go back and use Windows.
This mailing list is for asking technical questions and finding answers and has served well for many users. If you have particular technical questions about SuSE Linux, feel free to post them and the kind people on this list will try to help you as much as they can; I doubt anything can be achived by the type of complaints that you had in your mail; those questions belong somewhere else.
Have fun and enjoy life. [stuff cut]
Bummer of a response! I am a kernel developer for a major UNIX company, and I am having some issues with SuSE; they are not showstoppers because I know what I am doing, but the mass audience might be different. I switched to Linux some years back because I found it EASIER to use and configure than Windows. This siituation is beginning to reverse itself. Ins SuSE 8.1 I have had to manually enable my mouse wheel, something I am sure would have confused a newbee. Also E-term has been crippled, X-Files no longer works (returning tcl errors), and Xmcd won't get through configuration. I guess, Ai, that you are right about one thing; if I had wanted Windows, I would have bought Windows, but I chose Linux - because it is easier to use. John Dvorak, Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols and the various Linux distros have an important lesson ot learn; if left up to the bean counters we would all be running Visicalc on a 12 inch green monitor and a 286; it is the home user that drives innovation; make him happy and J. Random Pointy-Hair will follow slavishly like the sheep that he is! And other than these small problems SuSE 8.1 is a great product. mg