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Subject:    Re: [kde] how to make KDE faster?
From:       corey_s () cox ! net
Date:       2004-02-24 19:03:49
Message-ID: 20040224190349.GG6281 () scanner
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Here hear!

Great post.



On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 10:23:36PM -0400, Trevor Smith wrote:
> On February 20, 2004 12:43 pm, Alexander H.M. Ruoff wrote:
> > That's sound strange because it took me about 1 hour to install FC1 on
> > my Laptop and I was basically new to Linux (had FC1 on my desktop at
> 
> I know, it does sound strange, but the reason reveals a good lesson about 
> linux and computers in general.
> 
> I too have found that the installation for linux is DEAD simple and I've done 
> it many times over the years, mostly with Red Hat, but also with a few other 
> distros. For at least a few years, maybe more, it's been at least as easy to 
> install Linux as it is to install Windows.
> 
> HOWEVER, when I tried to get FC1 running I ran into a strange problem: my NIC 
> would not work. It worked fine in Win2k and, as far as I remember, it worked 
> fine in OS/2 and up to at least RH7.x.
> 
> What was the problem? I'll never know. I eventually bought a new NIC and boom! 
> things started working. Maybe it was old corroded contacts, maybe it was a 
> fouled up driver, who knows? It seemed incomprehensible that it worked in 
> Windows, but was just dead in linux. Which made finishing the install pretty 
> hard since my NIC was my connection to my ADSL "modem" and without it I had 
> no 'net connection and had to keep booting to Windows, posting messages, 
> reading answers, booting to linux, trying the suggestions, copying the 
> results, booting to windows, etc... It was a MASSIVE pain and no one anywhere 
> could figure out what was wrong.
> 
> In fact, it was just out of desperation (and since they are so cheap) that, 
> almost a week into the attempted install I bought a new NIC. I had no real 
> hope that this would fix anything but I had nothing to lose at that point. 
> Luckily it did solve the problem.
> 
> The moral is though, you can NOT predict what will go wrong with computers, 
> nor why it will. Expecting that things will go off without a hitch -- even 
> when they have done so for years -- is foolish.
> 
> So, am I eager to try compiling the entire KDE desktop environment when I've 
> never compiled anything over a few hundred lines of code, which I've written 
> myself? DEFINITELY NOT! The potential for something going wrong is infinitely 
> beyond what I could hope to cope with, as would be the case for any 
> non-super-user. 
> 
> -- 
>  Trevor Smith    |    trevor@haligonian.com 
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