Leaping without looking (Was: Re: SUSE 8.0 install problem any ideas?)

[Kyle Faber]

> It's a shame that linux has so much problems with installations.  Time and
> time again I have seen people say that this distro or that distro would not
> install.  Some can install redhat with out problems while others try in
> vein. Windows on the other hand just installs.  I guess that is the problem
> you will encounter with so many different distro's out there.  None is
> standard and None will install on all hardware configurations.

	You're talking about Microsoft Windows (tm) right?  The one that didn't ship 
a format utility from the command line on early OEM versions of Windows 98?  
The one that pre-installs so many spooky drivers for a Windows 2000 install 
that I can barely see straight?  (4 DISKS!!!!  What the hell could be on 
those!!!)  

	I understand your point about "some distros do this, some do it this way" but 
that's a matter of choice and the simple fact is you CAN switch distros if 
one isn't rubbing you the right way.   I am on a coffee break from trying to 
install 2K on a client's machine right now that "just won't install" and 
there's nothing I can do about it but examine the hardware from top to 
bottom, burn some incense, and hang wet noodles from my nose in hope's of it 
working by some voodo magic.

	Sorry if I start a bashing thread and walk away (back to the mines) but let's 
not have another "windows does this better" session on this list, because 
anecdotes do not make a pattern.  I see from your sig that you work in the 
computer building/fixing industry.  Can you honestly tell me that every 
computer you have ever worked on loaded with a Microsoft operating system has 
always "just worked" and that you have never been stumped by a problem that 
"went away" by rebooting?

~Kyle

PS. That's a rhetorical question  =)