Daniel Bauer wrote:
On the other hand it is really *not* easy to get a computer running with openSUSE.
wery bad wording... "a computer" don't mean anything today. I installed dozen of openSUSE with no problem at all or nearly.
Whatever I try to install, I have to search google, forums, mailing lists... for hours and hours.
what do you mean? You can have console only (minimal) openSUSE running on most harware in 1/4 hour. even Kde in 3/4 hour. Can you have a hauppauge Win-TV-card running and a
webcam too? No. It took me days to find out.
then you have problem with special hardware. This is bad (I know I have the same card, I not even tried to run it with Linux :-)
And I absolutely don't wonder why people stay with Windows or Mac. Linux is still just too complicated for people who have other hobbies than tinkering with computers.
do you actually have to install windows machines? I do and find this much more difficult than Linux *as soon as the hardware is not uptodate* reistalling any windows takes *weeks*
*If* openSUSE once is up and running it's great, but not every one can invest weeks on testing, searching, frustration
Anybody here (or may be I'm wrong?) knows that the hardware makers are mostly superbly ignoring Linux, and this is the problem. Of course, there are always things to do. In fact, make us a gift: you have got a valuable experience about hardware, write it down on the wiki like you did here, this can be a life saving for other... thanks jdd -- Jean-Daniel Dodin Président du CULTe www.culte.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org