"Nice generalization there. I wish I could agree that "all" linux users would know better. In a distro geared towards newbies, most of them in fact will _not_ know better"
Note that I said that it's unlikely a new user would use root unless told to do so. In fact, I personally was scared to go root for some time before using it, and everyone I've met are smart enough to ask about something like "root" before touching it.
"Tell your grandmother not to buy her brand spankin' new laptops in the bargin bin at wal-mart and you may see recent resolutions, 1024x768 is fairly unheard of these days"
I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this. Both my mother and my grandmother bought their laptops from BEST BUY just a couple months ago, and they got the most expensive system they could find. You're trying to tell me that 1024x768 is unheard of these days? Actually, my grandmother's monitor has a smaller size (in inches) than mine, I measured it myself.
"No, these features do not "only" work in Mandriva, many distro's have had various amounts of success with suspend / hibernate lately, you really need to read up on some current-events"
I've got references, just hop in the #arklinux channel on Freenode and ask JohnMS or madpenguin8 about it.
"If anything, older should be even better supported, judging hardware by age in the linux world generally doesn't mean much, I have always had "odd" issues with hardware in Ark - and the main response I got when looking for help was "Sorry, we can't test everything". Even on some standard hardware. Ark may be wonderful for the few people who get features they want implemented in it, and Bero does work his @$$ off for the project, which is commendable, but I have to agree with the above posters / reviewer, there is nothing Ark really brings to the table that warrants the drawbacks that also come with it, not to mention some of the 'holier-than-thou' attitudes you receive in the support chat"
What "standard" hardware doesn't work right? Also, it is my experience that anything older than Y2K (even older than 2001) doesn't work very well under the 2.6 kernel on any distro. Try telling me that everything should work on Ark (or any distro for that matter). In fact, tell me how Ubuntu supposedly works on all hardware and yet somehow fails to see my ATI card (and I've seen other ATI users complain of the same thing).
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Re: No is Ark verdict
Posted by: Pikidalto on May 23, 2008 02:06 AMNote that I said that it's unlikely a new user would use root unless told to do so. In fact, I personally was scared to go root for some time before using it, and everyone I've met are smart enough to ask about something like "root" before touching it.
"Tell your grandmother not to buy her brand spankin' new laptops in the bargin bin at wal-mart and you may see recent resolutions, 1024x768 is fairly unheard of these days"
I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this. Both my mother and my grandmother bought their laptops from BEST BUY just a couple months ago, and they got the most expensive system they could find. You're trying to tell me that 1024x768 is unheard of these days? Actually, my grandmother's monitor has a smaller size (in inches) than mine, I measured it myself.
"No, these features do not "only" work in Mandriva, many distro's have had various amounts of success with suspend / hibernate lately, you really need to read up on some current-events"
I've got references, just hop in the #arklinux channel on Freenode and ask JohnMS or madpenguin8 about it.
"If anything, older should be even better supported, judging hardware by age in the linux world generally doesn't mean much, I have always had "odd" issues with hardware in Ark - and the main response I got when looking for help was "Sorry, we can't test everything". Even on some standard hardware. Ark may be wonderful for the few people who get features they want implemented in it, and Bero does work his @$$ off for the project, which is commendable, but I have to agree with the above posters / reviewer, there is nothing Ark really brings to the table that warrants the drawbacks that also come with it, not to mention some of the 'holier-than-thou' attitudes you receive in the support chat"
What "standard" hardware doesn't work right? Also, it is my experience that anything older than Y2K (even older than 2001) doesn't work very well under the 2.6 kernel on any distro. Try telling me that everything should work on Ark (or any distro for that matter). In fact, tell me how Ubuntu supposedly works on all hardware and yet somehow fails to see my ATI card (and I've seen other ATI users complain of the same thing).
I'm sorry, I can't agree with any of this.
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