Star Migration: Not for the Faint of Heart
Linked by Adam S on Sun 6th Apr 2003 17:18 UTC
Linux This is my reaction to Tsu Dho Nimh's "Migrating to Linux not easy for Windows users" featured on Linuxworld.com recently. It's not a response, I'm not challenging his opinions, which I feel are not only valid, but mostly right, it's just a reaction.
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RE: Stop trying to make excuses
by cheezwog on Sun 6th Apr 2003 20:25 UTC

I agree. I found it surprising that the new NVidia driver I downloaded did so much configuration automatically, but did not make the simple change on an 'nv' to an 'nvidia' in my XF86Config.

There should be a gui tool for this, I think it can be assumed that someone who has downloaded drivers for a Gforce 4 is probably running a gui, or at least provide support for native X11 if they want to keep it window manager agnostic.

While editing configuration files should be made as easy as possible, by keeping them in human readable text, a newbie should not be expected to do this.