On 4/28/05, JB wrote:
On Thursday 28 April 2005 08:07, Colin Carter wrote:
I also wanted, with all my passion, that SuSE be better than M$. After 40 years of technical programming experience I am still struggling with the SuSE system (eg YAST falling over, chasing / searching for stuff etc) after a year of SuSE.
I'll keep trying with SuSE, but if I want something quick I "fall back" (ie backwards) to my XP laptop. What can I do? My CD burner suddenly produces crap, unreadable disks under SuSE; obviously it is quicker to start up my XP machine and burn it there then to waste yet more time trying to debug the SuSE system. I am tired of fighting modern products. (That applies to choosing a shampoo ...)
I had hoped to drop M$ completely, but SuSE keeps driving me back.
Sorry Linux gurus, but I don't want to be a "Linux guru", I want to write application code on a robust, easy to configure O.S.
Regards, Colin
Yet you're some kind of programmer and can't figure out an OS as easily as many 'non' programmers...regular everyday 'Joes', like my 65 year old mom (who practically begged me to put Linux on her system, that's how sick and tired of M$' shit she was). What great and exciting and field leveling apps have you made that have rocked the computer world anyway? Maybe you should be called 'Stupor Programmer Man'.
Do you really think that being programmer makes it easier to understand Linux then Windows from a user perspective? If anything it makes it harder. Everytime you have a problem your tempted to lift the covers and see what is going on. With Windows, you can far more easily justify giving up. As an example, I use XP at work. The "Start-Search" function just quit working acouple of days ago. I know there is no reasonable way for me to fix that, so I just give up. [I have two choices: re-install XP, or install an alternate program to do the the search. (Beagle for Windows?)] With Linux, I have the blessing/curse of re-installing the rpm, verifying checksums, looking thru the source, etc. The end result is I prefer Linux for production work that I need to work, but for standard desktop use where I don't have to have full functionality, I get into less trouble with XP. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century