On 6/20/06, carmen <_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
yes, the situation is pretty bad.. i even had to switch my mom back to winXP from Gnome, since she complained about her brand new 2ghz sempron being 'too slow'...
Boy, I understand that situation. I've finally managed to get DRI working on my wife's 32-bit machine with an Intel chipset with built-in VGA, but I can't seem to get DRI working on my AMD64 with a PCI-Express ATI card, nor on my son's old machine with an older off-beat card. (No suprise there I suppose...) I was talking to a guy I saw reading Linux Journal in a coffee shop this afternoon. We both agreed that Linux's major problem for the average user is not the way it operates but the problems of configuring it. Once set up it's great. The path to get it set up, while hugely better than a few years ago, is just way beyond what anyone should have to do. Cheers, Mark
