I don’t know why I keep trying to make Mandrake Linux work – it never really has for me, and I doubt it ever will.
Things that went wrong this time:
- It won’t let me mount my NTFS and FAT32 and Samba shares as a user – only as root. So-long, saving…
- The driver that supports TV for my video card starts putting TV images all over windows, as soon as I quit the TV program
- The package management tools suck considerable ass. They’re slow, they don’t recover gracefully when a package that’s supposed to be there isn’t (what the hell is that!?!?!), and I see no easy way of keeping this entire system at Cooker.
Hey, Mandrake: It’s called APT. It works with RPM now. Use it, and stop forcing your half-assed shit on unsuspecting users.
- It won’t work with my printer. An HP printer that it has a driver for, served from a CUPS machine that both Red Hat AND Windows XP can print to just fine. Mandrake, however, likes to spit out a PostScript header, then an infinite number of blank pages. The printer tool is would be a joke if it wasn’t so painful – they dropped a sensible tabbed interface in favour of a radio-buttons-lead-to-new-windows monstrosity.
On top of that, the “Change printer options”-type thing does nothing for my printer
- Sometimes, installing packages wipes out your K / Gnome menu, and the only way to restore it is to run MenuDrake and click save.
Yes, I know I’m using a pre-release, but this is a Release Candidate, not an Alpha build.
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