On 7/12/06, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The aim is for developers. Since ATI and nVidia
> control the majority
> > of the market, we should get your friend's problem
> fixed.
>
> I was able to walk him through the whole process just
> fine and it really
> came down to a misunderstanding. He saw that basic
> GRUB screen and assumed
> that graphics support was not going to happen. Makes
> sense considering what
> he sees everyday with Windows XP and Windows servers
> in general. The latest
> SUSE Linux looks very slick from the very first boot
> of the install CDROM.
> He made an assumption and then ended up stuck with a
> text based install.
>
> I walked him through the whole process and he is
> running fine.
>
> Now he wants to start over and do it all himself.
>
> As far as I am concerned its a win when a sysadmin
> from the Windows world
> wants to look into Solaris 10 for _any_ reason.
>
> Dennis
The only thing I see in this is that I don't quite agree with the argument that
since the first thing they saw was text, that they weren't going to get
graphics. It's been a little while, but isn't the first thing that Windows XP
does is boot to a text mode environment and doesn't it do the first stage of
installation in that enviornment as well?
I see lots of complaints from people about install processes for Linux, Solaris, BSD,
etc. -- but not too many people that are willing to admit that the Windows install
process isn't a very "aesthetic" experience either.
although windows installer is ugly, very few people actually use it,
almost all the desktop boxes have windows preinstalled; and even if
windows actually beraks beyond repair there is always a hiden
partition and a recovery cd to do the grunt work.
i personally dont see windows as an example for anything except maybe
usability but even there it is not the king of the hill, we have
apple. I like their IDEs though :)
nacho
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