Why I think FC3 sucks!

[Edward Yang]

After getting so many reply from my last post, I finally understand why 
the post aroused so much agitation.

1. It seems for some people, 'FC3 sucks' is the same as '*Linux* sucks'. 
But I am very sorry, I did not mean that. I just meant FC3 sucks or FC3 
sucks because it is worse than FC1 based on my personal experience.

2. Some young guys (mostly students) or even not-so-young guys (what the 
hell who are they?) like the feel of calling somebody *troll*, and so 
they seize every possible chance to show off their *skills* at name 
calling. That's a dark side I already know about Linux communitiy. But, 
please note I am not saying the *whole* Linux community is bad, I mean a 
small part of it.

Okay, let me elaborate why I think FC3 sucks or FC3 is worse than FC1. 
Note that I did not have experience with FC2.

1. Installation. Well, what can I say? It is not worse, but it not any 
bettern than FC1. Components selection is still very difficult.

2. FC3 could not start into X in Virtual PC. It spews out tons of error 
messages complaining something that actually should not have caused its 
failure. So I have to download a temporary patch from 
http://vpc.visualwin.com/. See page 
http://vpc.visualwin.com/Notes/FedoraCore.3.Final.html.

3. After several times of kernel updating (at least 3), I finally can 
boot into X from the so called official kernel provided by FC3.

4. It is hopelessly slower than FC1! I could run FC1 with only 128mb 
memory and don't feel much sluggishness. I now run FC3 with 164mb 
memory, but it is visibly slower than FC1! Application startup time is 
almost unbearable.

5. I am a newbie on Linux, but I already find a few bugs. For example, 
in gnome-termial, if I set DEL to ASCII DEL in the profile settings, it 
actualy acts like BACKSPACE. This bug may be specific only to gnome, but 
since it's bundled with FC3, so I attribute the problem to FC3. It's 
quite reasonable.

6. I have not acurate data to prove this, but I feel the system boot up 
time is longer than FC1.

7. This is a minor problem - I only installed kernel+gnome, no KDE. Yet 
it takes up more than 2gb space. What the hell? A normal Windows 2000 
installation usually takes only 1.5gb even with all components selected. 
I forgot how much was FC1, but FC3 apparently is not doing better or 
even worse.

8. I may think of others that attribute to this 'FC3 sucks' topic.

Final words - I am not negating Linux. Actually I think Linux and Open 
Source has a very good future. That's why I am catching the new waves here.

Thanks.

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