On Wednesday 15 September 2004 18:20, Wyatt M. Portendt wrote: > Aaaaaarrrrgh!! > > I *really* like the looks of what this OS *could* do. I'm sorry, though, > it lacks one Windows feature that I really miss right now. Hardware > detection and configuration is killing Linux. > > I can't get sound. I can't get 3D acceleration or any of the features of > my video card. My DVD+RW doesn't work. My DVD ROM works, but there's no > sound, so, who cares? Thank God I don't have a printer or a modem. > Fire up Kmix and check your settings. This is the key to get sound on SUSE. Turned off by default.
> Windows guesses at hardware lots of times, but at least it *will* find it > and try to make it work (enough to at least know that there's *something* > there) - even if it isn't quite right. There is always the option of > trying new drivers - fully available with a simple download and click to > install - without recompiling the code and searching for arcane dependency > files that must match the particular version of fifty different modules > that must match the kernel you are using. You can't even click the "about" > tab of the help to see which version of the program you actually have! > Ugh? Every program with a *Help* function will show you the version of the program. If you mean the kernel version , run control center and voila. > The mail and internet programs have been challenging, but very do-able. > It's the best internet suite I've ever used. I agree. The setting up of email and internet is one of the easiest I ever came up to. > I could live with keeping my > games on Windows and everything else on Linux. I don't mind using the > command line. But, JEEZE! Can't we just try to make the hardware work and > make the tweaking a little less obscure?? What HW? > I am not opposed to, or afraid > of, digging into the bowels of my computer to make it better or faster. > Having to just spend days trying to make it work before I get there is > asking a lot. > > I am all for open source and all for the capabilities and possibilities of > Linux. However, how are we ever going to get people excited and interested > if their very first experience with it is a long and tedious battle just to > get it to do *anything* right?? > > My first three experiences with Linux reminds me of the early days of DOS - > spending hours at the command line, I'm afraid you are judging this wrong. You are able to run SUSE 9.1 without ever using the command line. -- The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country." - George W. Bush, January 29, 2001, Washington, DC Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors." ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. Register anything. http://us.click.yahoo.com/J8kdrA/y20IAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
