From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

Randall Parker wrote:
> So far:
>
> 1) I wish I'd chosen KDE during installation. Gnome isn't sophisticated
> enough for my needs. I want a tree view directory explorer and the
> ability to move the top/bottom bar(s) to the side.
>
> 2) Linux Firefox is way slower for me than Windows Firefox. If you have
> Firefox go to this link and use the Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- (or View | Text
> Size) to resize the fonts:
> http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/cat_aging_reversal.html
> For me that happens almost instantaneously on Windows but takes 12
> seconds on Linux with similar speed hardware. Would a faster graphics
> car help? Does my graphics card have a slow driver?
>
> 3) Linux Thunderbird is much slower (more than an order of magnitude -
> maybe two orders of magnitude) than Windows Thunderbird at fetching
> messages from a _Barkto_ news group. I just tried newsgroups.borland.com
> and found it fetched messages instantaneously from there. So what's with
> the Barkto news server?
>
> 4) Sometimes in Linux Thunderbird when I hit Reply the reply window pops
> up but without any text for at least 10 to 15 seconds. The controls for
> writing in are grayed out. What's it doing? Sometimes it happens
> instantaneously. Can't see a pattern to it. But I suspect it is related
> to the previous item. It probably talks to the server when you hit Reply.
>
> 5) Fonts still are a problem. Part of the problem is that the web is
> designed around MS fonts. The default fonts that get used on Linux when
> MS fonts aren't found (e.g. Verdana, Arial, Garamond) do not look as
> good. Maybe Linux has better fonts and Firefox and other browsers would
> render web pages better if they chose different Linux fonts to use?
>
> 6) Installs are more difficult than in Windows. You download a tar.gz.
> Now what? Unzip it and start looking for stuff. Try to run an install
> script and it complains it can't write somewhere. Run as root to install
> all apps? How to log on as root at the bash prompt? I've asked and noone
> has answered so far. You have to know lots of little Linux lure to do
> basic stuff.
>
> 7) I want to configure Samba and make it run on start-up. I think I have
> it on the machine. Do not know what next step to take. Go where to put
> it in a start-up script? Or is there a services/daemon manager?

I get this "he'd be better off with Suse or Ubuntu feeling....."

Both those 2 have very good tools for doing what you want via icons &
mice clicks etc esp wrt smb.

wrt installs.....use the package manager...fire it up, find the package you
want, click install, wait a few seconds et voila nothing else to do except
to start using it.

Adam

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