__/ [William Poaster] on Sunday 30 October 2005 14:04 \__
> On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:40:53 +0100, a broadcast message from the Karel "de
> Jazz" Jansens console, was as follows:
>
>> So I bought a new keyboard and figured I'd install it on the -- for now --
>> SuSE 9.3 pc.
>>
>> After coming home I discover that the keyboard is QWERTY, but not US
>> QWERTY rather than the slightly different (and immensly more useful, for
>> Europeans) Dutch QWERTY, with deadkeys, more logically laid out accents
>> and symbols and keys assigned to RGTALT+[KEY] (including the EURO-symbol).
>>
>> So I boot up the computer, firstly into Windows 2000, select keyboard
>> layout and Dutch and everything works as expected (in truth: I /hadn't/
>> expected this from Windows, but there you go).
>>
>> Reboot to SuSE 9.3, fire up YaST (KDE Control Center hangs the computer,
>> remember?) and select keyborar, Dutch layout, save.
>>
>> Does it work? Does it bugger all! SuSE's idea of a Dutch keyboard layout
>> is a renamed US layout, which renders my new keyboard next to useless. So,
>> to be certain, I put in a live CD of Ubuntu 4.1 (a /very/ old version
>> indeed) and fire it up. Sure thing, as expected, even a prehistoric
>> version of Ubuntu can come up with a proper Dutch layout.
>>
>> Why do people even pay money to these morons at SuSE anymore?
>
> Have you complained TO SuSE or Novell? Or are you just going to keep
> whining & ranting?
...Well, interesting timing as I installed SuSE 9.3 on a new machine 4 or
5 days ago and I /suspect/ it had a few problems with my keyboard layout
too. I haven't got around to looking at it in depth. I have 2 other new
keyboards lying around just in case, but I believe I should simply change
to GB layout. YaST actually makes this very easy.
The only thing that bothers me, believe it or not, is that the keyboard I
received in the package, although it looks wonderful, has a circle where
the right SHIFT typically lies. It is hard getting accustomed to always
use the left SHIFT. What is that circle anyway? And why is it that I al-
ways spend a few seconds trying to figure out what's wrong until I see
that the colon is in fact a semi-colon? Why is it that amaroK uses the
Windows logo button for global keyboard accelerators? The keyboard strug-
gles must end.
As for Ubuntu, something about its hardware detection is admirable. I use
it on a machine at work very happily. Nonetheless, I am an avid SuSE user
and would describe your situation as "tough luck". Try OpenSuSE 10. The
reviews are excellent.
Roy
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