Linked by kvaruni on Mon 11th Jul 2005 14:48 UTC
The true reason for this article is to point out some sensitive points and to start a discussion. Hopefully, this discussion will produce some useful outcome and if some people in the Linux community are willing to listen to them, I would already be very enthusiastic. Let's start, shall we?
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RE[2]: Woes of someone new to Linux
by CrazyDude0 on Mon 11th Jul 2005 21:19
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RE[3]: Woes of someone new to Linux
by rayiner on Mon 11th Jul 2005 21:27
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the first three Linux distro installations were much harder than the other OSes I installed (XP, 2k, DOS, and BeOS), and ultimately failed (some hardware issues with my laptop).
What distro and what laptop? Did you check the hardware compatibility list before installing? I can't imagine a laptop where BeOS works and Linux doesn't...
Two of the main problems were that the font smoothing looked horrible on my laptop screen (which is one reason I currently hate to use it) and networking didn't work.
which version of SuSE? Are you sure the screen was running at its native resolution? Define "horrible". Last time I used SuSE was 9.1, and its fonts were just fine on my laptop LCD.
After figuring out where the network settings were (different configuration programs with overlapping functions... not fun to learn)
In SuSE, everything is in YaST. Exactly what did you have trouble with? YaST's networking configuration closely mirrors Windows XP's. You select your network device, then tell it to automatically get an IP. Its not as easy as Fedora's "list of network cards in one dialog" approach, but it's not any hardware than Windows.
So I go into Windows, copied my network settings to a USB thumb drive and tried mounting it.
what, the thumb drive didn't work? I haven't used SuSE in awhile, but if its like Fedora or Ubuntu, plugging in a thumb drive should just pop an icon up on the desktop.