On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 22:38:03 +0530, kapil pendse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know much about external modem, since I don't have one. But I
> guess ext. modem shouldn't give much of a problem. It'll probably be
> already detected and properly configured by SuSE 9.1. :-)
>
External modems are absolutely no problem in Linux. I used SuSe 9.0
sometime ago and I had internet working when I booted it for the first
time. I had a qustion though. Can anyone who has used both internal
and external modems give a short idea about the performance ( speed,
connection drops etc. ) ?
>
> But natural that an end user cares least about technicalities! Be it
> OSS or be it MS, end user will get irritated and confused if something
> goes wrong! Even I was very new to linux a year back, but I'm studying
> in IT stream so I had interest in finding solutions to problems and
> learning technical stuff. Not all end users want to do this. Infact,
> most of them don't! Probably that's why MS is where it is despite
> Linux being better *technically*. MS's User interface is still much
> better than most of the Linux distros, you have to give it to them.
> Why keep on saying bad words about MS, why not instead learn from what
> they have done to reach where they are? I believe, when it comes to UI
> and simple tasks like mounting cds and other stuff, MS is still better
> than Linux, despite WinDOS probably being crap from inside compared to
> Linux! Even now, vast majority of people use Win as against Lin. Why
> blame it only on lack of funds/awareness/willingness of people etc
> etc. Agreed that these are issues, but there's something to learn from
> MS too.
What do you do when something goes wrong in Windoze? Maybe read the help?
Is reading the help akin to 'learn the technicalities'?
Kaustubh
--
Nature, and nature's laws,
Lay hid in the night.
God said, "Let Newton be!",
And all was light!
-Alexander Pope
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