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Old 30-May-2009, 06:15
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Default Who do newcomers give up on Linux?
Based on the questions asked in this forum and the way Winod$ migrants think, what do you think the main reasons? Let's list it here so that it may give all of us some hints on what needs to be done to improve the distro.
I can think of the following:
(1) [During installation] Windows partition + Linux partition confusion.
(2) [During installation] GRUB related issues.
(3) [During installation] Which desktop to select?
(4) Internet doesn't work - mainly wireless.
(5) Windo$ partition is not accessable. (Escpecially, NTFS mounted with not enough attributes set).
(6) Sound not working.
(7) Music not playing (codec issues).
(8) Graphics card issues.
I know that openSUSE developers are aware of this and they are trying their best but a check list is always a good idea.
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