The Dark Balloon

A weblog by Hao Lian.
A terrible secret guarded by golems.
A note that thanks you for being born, all those years ago.

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Salamanders Undermining Slavic Epithets

Pros of SUSE vis-a-vis Fedora:

  • Can detect my external harmon/kardon speakers
  • Seems to be faster
  • Can run Firefox without the Fedora bug

And the opposite:

  • Installation is long and wieldy; took me four mirrors to find the right one (Total installation time with downloading: 11 hours; Fedora: 6 hours)
  • Abject GNOME integration compared to Fedora
    • Control Panel is hidden or not there at all (Edit: found it)
    • Desktop folder is placed in an awful space (~/.gnome-desktop, I think)
  • This has forced me to try KDE (again). Once again, it had one glaring fault: font-sizes. If font-sizes are perfect in applications, they'll stink in menus and toolips. And vice versa.

Solution? Windows, baby. And Fedora Core 2 in my spare time.

[(2004 May 21) .]

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