On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 07:21 PM, Henrik Edlund wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, targon wrote: > > t> is a very fast an stable OS. After a few days use i think its slower > t> than OS X on my Dual 500 G4. Aside from the speed issue's i > must say im > t> a little disappointed in the usability of the OS. > > Well, on my iBook2-500 (384MB) Mandrake 8.2 is about 10 times as fast > doing most operations compared to MacOSX 1.1.5. Also MacOSX is so damn > unstable it can hardly be used. I have at least one application crasch > every day I run it, and I hate having to reboot after doing certain > upgrades. MacOSX really sucks - let's see if Apple can release > something > usable within a few years maybe. > Interesting, there must be something terribly wrong with mandrake on my Dual G4 then. It often takes up to 10 seconds to open a new window up from the item in the right mouse click menu. I fresh installed and only installed the packages on the left side of the mandrake package installer..that is the workstation packages (not games tho or scientific), i didn't install any of the server packages. Often the Mandrake control center just hangs an becomes unresponsive. BTW what is the command to force quit an app? Control,Alt, Delete seems to force quit the window manager an then logs me out. Sometimes other apps just hang an the system becomes unresponsive. I use Gnome, could this be the place where the problems stem from? I don't think Linux it self has crashed. > t> Is it just me having a miserable time with it or is this a standard > t> life in Linux on PPC? > > As Obi-Wan said, it all depends on your point of view. To me OSX is > miserable unusable, while Linux is perfect. And in the spririt of free > software - if you don't like something - just dig in and fix it... :-) > > Best regards, > > Henrik While i agree OS X is far from perfect, for a first time user experience it's significantly smoother to install an start using without any hicupps. at least in my experience. Under Linux, the first 2 apps i tryed to configure (mandrake center, evolution mail) either hung an became unresponsive, or threw up an error at launch time. Thats not a very good start. When i decided to uninstall Mozilla from the mandrake software uninstaller i was forced to log out and the machine wouldn't let me log in resulting in a re-installation. Maybe im just very unlucky an my hardware is not suitable for mandrake linux but on the whole i get the feeling that Linux is no better than windows. It just seems to be unpredictable an does many freaky things. I Shall investigate Linux under AMD hardware, perhaps things are a little smoother and easier access to the newest versions of software. I have totally become very much attached to the "Galeon" web browser, altho the version with 8.2 mandrakeppc is very old and buggy i assume the newer version is much more mature. But the newer versions seems unlikely to work on PPC due to it's dependence on Mozilla 1.0. Hopefully on the x86 side things are rosier. I like the UI customization in Gnome using Sawfish but i was curious as to if it is possible to customize it further? Im a long time mac user an find it unsettling to see the cancel button on the far right corner of dialogs. I'd like to be able to swap the buttons around so the ok button is on the far right. Additionally, i'd like some global way of assigning specific key commands to every app system wide.. eg Command+Q for quit. I notice some apps use alt+f4 while others use control+q and others respond to nothing. Are these things possible to anyones knowledge? Does anyone think Gnome 2.0 will be a significant improvement on the version shipped with 8.2 Mandrake PPC? Regards
