On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, you wrote:
>
> I give up on linux. Now I boot in and usb just decides not to work. You
> spend sooo much time trying to get the hardware working (which it very
> rarely ever does), then you do something so small like change a character in
> some file, or click the worng button, or not even do anything at all, then
> the whole system stops working, just shuts down completely. Someone has to
> come up with an os that's as friendly as windoze, with all the perks of
> linux :)
Maybe linux is not for you - you give up too easily ;-)
I have my share of h/w headaches, and personally I have little time for the GUI
based configuration tools, which work except every time you need them. I don't
know how to hack the files byt hand yet (I'm not one of these matchstick
chewing console freaks who use emacs to fry eggs :), but I am aware that there
is a predictability about linux, and regard it as a crash free environment. I
had this proved when I tried a reinstall (I had a laptop running SuSE and it
was bellyaching about a bug in the dynamic linker) ten minutes before my son
decided to go on the Internet. I found him with two Netscape browser windows, a
download, and irc going (On a 33.6 pcmcia modem) while the reinstall was
running on a pcmcia cdrom! Try that in Windoze! I checked up afterward, to find
that 149 of 153 packages were installed successfully, and the cdrom had a read
fault - pretty good I thought.
It sounds like you have a couple of problems. Have you run any of the process
monitors? Have you waited? linux is sometimes slower to respond to an
interrupt under load. Keep banging things and you'll drown it in useless
interrupts. Have you enough ram and enough swap? What's your usb configuration?
Are you starting 50 unnecessary daemons?
Read any HOWTOs? When you get past the bilge (Scope of document, what it does
not cover, why it was written, biographies of anyone whoever corrected a
spelling in it, what HOWTOs you really should be reading, etc) they have some
useful information.
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