I am the guilty party who started this thread, and I wish to apologise to all readers for my rant. It does seem to have elicited some similar feelings from other subscribers though. My attitude when sending that original message was the result of a 14 hr day spent: Upgrading to 8.1, blowing off 8.1 and installing from scratch (keeping only /HOME), blowing off 8.1 and totally repartitioning the drive, THEN re-installing for the third time. The result of all this was: No sound, wrong video card & display installed, wrong PCMCIA NIC installed, a large number of programs missing from the Dekstop Menu's (even though I "installed everything"), desktops dropping out at random (working in KDE, then FLICKER,FLICKER,GONE. I am sitting at the command prompt login)
I tend to assume that a newer version of an OS, will have all the capabilities of an older version, plus nice extras. MDK7.2 autodetected all the components. Even when it didn't quite recognize the component, it was able to set up parameters close enough to work. I restored my laptop to 7.2 in under 2 hours, with a working sound card, proper video card, and PCMCIA NIC, all detected and working automagically. FWIW, my laptop AMD2-K6 380 mhz 160MB RAM 4.2 GB HDD (IBM) Mostly ACER MB components Neomagic Video Neomagic Audio 7.2 EVEN detected and set up my Rockwell WinModem!! My experiences to date with this laptop: Win95 Plug & Pray Win98 Plug & Pray MDK 8.1 Plug & "What the..." MDK 7.2 Plug & play, and drop, and recover, and run battery down & recover, and open WIndBlows LookOut virii-(JUST BECAUSE I CAN...and it pisses off co-workers ;^). )etc etc Ken > -----Original Message----- > From: Ken Hawkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 4:49 AM > To: expert > Subject: [expert] 8.1 Piece of Crap! > > Just to vent: > > Had a perfectly functioning 7.2 on my laptop. That was easier than any > other OS (windows or linux) I tried. Total plug & play. > > Then I decided to try 8.1 for all the updates and extras...what a piece > of SH!T! > > I know a lot of people worked long and hard on this, and I have been a > Mandrake supporter since V.7.x > > I tell people how easy the install is, how they don't need to be a linux > guru to get busy doing stuff. Robust, stable, versatile. > > Now I have to turn around and say to those people, whatever you > do....DON'T upgrade to MDK8. > > I am not a guru, but neither am I a novice; I pissed a whole day away > trying to have desktops that didn't go flakey, and Multi-Media that > worked..No such luck. Now I am going to rollback to 7.2 > > If Mandrake is still trying to target the average desktop PC user, they > will have to totally rethink the installation process for 8. > > Version 8 is a step BACKWARD as far as ease of installation and use go. > > Ken > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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