switching users... forget it!

[Cody Smith]

somehow a thread asking for help turned into random discussion related to
KDE...


On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Sid Boyce <sboyce at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> On 13/07/14 13:00, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
>
>> My first go with Linux was SuSE 9, I believe, that I bought in a box at
>> Comp USA. I set it up dual boot with Windows and "played" with it when I
>> wasn't doing anything in particular. Can't tell you how many times I had
>> to reformat that partition and reinstall. I quickly learned a whole lot
>> of things NOT to do. Before long I managed to come to terms with it at
>> some level and actually using it to do something constructive. One hump
>> in the learning curve was learning what programs did what. The programs
>> names are sometime not very clear at what they are for. As time went on,
>> I one day realized that I hadn't booted into Windows for a very long
>> time. I haven't looked back. I used SuSE for several versions but I kept
>> hearing great things about *Ubuntu so I set up a dual boot SuSE/Kubuntu.
>> SuSE had/has some nice features but I finally decided that Kubuntu
>> suited me more. The rest, as they say, is history.
>>
>>  The big difference I find between Kubuntu/Ubuntu and openSUSE is that
> openSUSE is often most up to date with all the latest developments like
> systemd which Ubuntu is just introducing, wicked, dracut and other stuff
> but it's still rock solid.
>
> One of the biggest headaches had been network configuration until wicked
> was introduced in openSUSE. With network cards, especially if swapping out
> motherboards or network cards and having to mess with udev rules, swapping
> cables around etc., wicked is consistent in the way it names interfaces so
> it's just a case of plug and play.
>
> Having said that, working with any Linux distro, once the few different
> tools are understood there is no problem - I use many.
>
> In over 34 years in the industry I had to work with whatever OS was
> supported on a platform - Mainframes from different manufacturers,
> PDP-11's, SPARC Enterprise servers, etc., even Linux on Mainframes and
> SPARC, that's at least 12 or more different OS's in that time, whatever the
> job demanded.
> Each requiring a different approach. That way I was able to  adapt quickly
> to be able to support all those hardware platforms and OS's.
> Neither myself or colleagues could not have survived professionally in a
> one hardware, one OS world.
> We had to approach each with a mindset that we didn't know jack and learn
> fast - e.g z/OS and Solaris are as different as chalk and cheese.
> Regards
> Sid.
>
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