Surprised and Disappointed
Jayce^
pluglist at plug.org
Mon May 5 11:48:26 MDT 2003
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=46irst off, I can say your experience seems very strange. I haven't had=20
anything like your experience in ages.
ok, your screensaver locked up. By chance was it an openGL one? (this can=
=20
help in debugging the cause). What video card?
As for my experiences with linux, I actually have better hardware=20
compatibility with linux on my systems, than I had with windows, and it=20
allows me to use it the way I want to use it. And I'm not talking old=20
hardware here either (although that works better too). =20
As for ease of use, things have really changed a lot in the last while. A=
=20
good experience for me, was when my wife recently got an ibook. We turned =
it=20
on, and it auto-picked up my cups printer, and she quickly had access to my=
=20
nfs shares. Life is good, and easy.
I can't say much for RH 8, which you tried. I stopped using RH on my own=20
systems a while ago. Maybe others can help more with that, maybe RH 9 is=20
your answer. Maybe trying Mandrake or Suse would be a better idea. Plenty=
=20
of locals have copies, or there are sites where you can download from if yo=
u=20
want.
=2D-=20
=2D-Jayce^
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