On 12/07/06, Phil Pennock <[email protected]> wrote:
On 2006-07-12 at 11:12 +0200, Phil Pennock wrote: Something has to go wrong soon, because this OS install is almost becoming tolerable and every time I think that, I become frustrated at something new and the hates builds to an even higher level than ever before.
WinXP was really quite tolerable for me actually. Once I'd dispatched the baby blue colour scheme (execpt during startup and crashes when it panics and runs back to it for comfort), it looks quite smooth and worked rather well. So, I had to reboot it every 1-2 days or it would run like treacle, but I end up rebooting Linux about as often because a) power management is broken so when it runs out of juice it doesn't hibernate, and b) occasionally wvdialling with my mobile stops working, and the magic incantations of replugging the usb cable, rebooting phone, and as last resort /etc/init.d/hotplug restart don't always work. and c) tasks such as waking up from sleep or watching a video in totem occasionally crash everything. osfameron
