Interestingly, I use Linux now because I decided to try it, as a dual boot, and was amazed how smoothly it installed and just ran, compared to Windows 2000 Professional, which I had installed just about a month before. This was a pre 6.5 version of Mandrake, I couldn't get over it!
I work a full time job and have nearly zero time to tweak and poke, and my Mandrake 7.2 system is only rebooted when the power has gone out long enough to trip the power failure software (about once this year), I have had to reboot my 8.0 system many more times than that, not to mention the countless occasions of having to log in from another machine to clear up a bug. Also, on the 7.2 system I can unplug my USB mouse, while running X, and when I plug it back it - it works; in 8.0 if I want to unplug the mouse, I have to Ctl-Alt-Fx to a console (which must be logged in) then when I plug the mouse back in I have to wait for the usb interrupt message, then hit Enter then Ctl-Alt-F7 to reenter X for the mouse to work. How come the older Linux's work better? To paraphrase Queen (with a little of "13th Warrior" thrown in) "WE are the champions my friends, limping is for losers, get stronger." Linux can be tops, but we need to stop making excuses. mg On Saturday 01 December 2001 03:14, ltiu wrote: > That's because these are commercial establishments with time and resources > to extensively test and configure their systems. "Joe the home user" wants > things working right away. I use Linux now but when I first started, I had > to spend lots of time and effort before things worked. > > On Friday 30 November 2001 23:49, you wrote: > > Don't tell IBM and Boscov's Department store and Amazon and the city of > > Largo Fla. they think it's pretty stable. Go figuah. > > > > mg > > > > On Friday 30 November 2001 23:50, ltiu wrote: > > > Your mileage varies. Everyone has a story to tell. It's open source and > > > QA is not very good. That's why it bahaves differently for different > > > people with different hardware, different usage needs and different > > > usage patterns. > > > > > > It's usually a mis-configuration. Tracking down what's mis-configured > > > will be a nightmare. > > > > > > On Friday 30 November 2001 19:42, you wrote: > > > > Hello > > > > > > > > I am having a funny behaviour with KDe and Gnome. If I click on any > > > > icon on desktop, I can see that the programme is running but nothing > > > > happens after that. If I want to create a terminal, again nothing > > > > happens. All windows simply disappear. > > > > > > > > On Gnome things are a bit different. I can't move any terminal > > > > window. They are stuck on the left corner and that is it. > > > > > > > > On windowmaker, everything works fine. > > > > > > > > What is going on? > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > Eduardo > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Content-Description: > > ---------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------
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