DesktopLinux.com: SuSE Linux 8.0: Good Software, Poor Distro

“After a few seconds, I was staring at my new KDE 3.0 desktop.
The icons on my desktop were a bit messy so I decided to order
them. Immediately I noted something strange: I had a floppy icon
with the text ‘Floppy’, a zip icon with the text ‘ZIP’, and a zip
icon with the text ‘Floppy 2’. This last one absolutely made no
sense, so I just deleted it.

“After arranging my icons, I began configuring some other stuff
in the Control Center. Here I found the Font Installer, which
advised me to run it as super user. Because I wanted to do some
other stuff also as super user, I logged out and logged in again,
now as root. I installed some True Type Fonts from my FAT32
partition. I installed some RPM’s which I couldn’t do as a normal
user, and when I was ready I logged out again and came back as
junior.

“Immediately, I noticed the positions of my icons were back at
their original position, my fonts had been reset and the KAlarm
daemon was started (I had disabled it the first time I logged in).
A bit surprised I put everything back like I had done the first
time. Then I tried the CD-ROM icon while there was an Audio CD in
my drive, unfortunately it only said it couldn’t determine the file
system and didn’t launch the Audio CD Browser…”

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