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SuSE Linux was almost up on top as one of my favorites. Until I found out that they protect the top surface of their installation disks with a a material similar in strength to a sugar coating! If you have any SuSe disks, take a look at them! After I held the disk up close to a light, there were pinholes galore! I had bought 9.2 less than a month ago. I have other music CDs that have fallen on my car floor, been stepped on, incredibly scratched, yet didn't get any pinholes in them. Is this just, "big company" ploys/tricks, to make sure SuSE disks last for only a short period and don't get circulated around through very many hands?

Seriously! This also happened to me with SuSE 9.1 Either the disks are damaged before you get them, or perhaps your fingernail is sufficiently abrasive to poke pinholes right through the reflective layer from the top side.

I discovered these pinholes while holding the Dual Layer DVD up to the light. I called the SuSE company. They told me to take it back to the store where I bought it... Ha Ha!!!! What store on this earth will take back an open package of CDs and DVDs? I now have 2 inoperable SuSE Distros! 9.1 and 9.2 $160.00 Down the drain!

If this had been Linspire, they would have sent another disk free of charge!

Red Hat Professional workstation was a comfortable distro. Suddenly I could not download any more updates or patches. After contacting the Red Hat company by phone, they made me send -THEM- out a fax, to declare that I was the original purchaser. I told them we have a mile long driveway and a bad snowstorm. To no avail, my wife drove to the bank for me and faxed it during a blizzard. Does this remind you of another OS? Perhaps Windows? It sure didn't seem like Linux to me. I think this mix-up started when I put RED HAT on my son's computer. Paranoid PCs at Red Hat (just like Win-doze) picked up on the change and assumed I was up to something sneaky. I hate how it is nowadays.... -Guilty until proven innocent-

I also tried Fedora, Mandrake, Debian, and several others that I can't even pronounce. Xandros was a disappointment. I had tons of trouble with it and NO phone support! Which they don't tell you that they don't provide, (phone support). Until you buy it. I found with their online support if they don't believe the problems that you are having, or don't have the answers, they simply stop responding to your e-mails. I also discovered crossover doesn't support very many programs. The only one that I used in Xandros was Adobe Photoshop 7. After I installed Photoshop, (SURPRISE!) all my Photoshop sharpening plug-ins were gone. About $1,000 dollars worth. Each one had to be re-ordered. Since most of these plug-ins will not work if stored on a disk and re-installed.