This is pretty ironic. I was just about to post a positive review on Mandrake 9.2. When I was done writing it, I chose to save it to /win/stuff/untitled.txt (/win/stuff is a mounted FAT32 drive). The file saved without any problems, and did so several times (I click the Save button frequently just in case). Then I rebooted to Windows in order to crop a screenshot I made (I'm still not familiar with Gimp), but I found that neither the screenshot nor the review was there on the FAT32 drive. For some sick, stupid and extremely lame reason, Mandrake (10 RC1) failed miserably when saving the files, but it wasn't clever enough to warn me about it! So the review is lost, unless I want to spend another hour writing it again.
I hate datalosses. I hate Mandrake. I hate Linux.
Posted by djst at March 4, 2004 6:32 PMSounds like Linux is catching up with microsoft on the hate front :-)
Posted by: vfwlkr at March 4, 2004 7:13 PMone word "RC1".
Posted by: ahmet at March 4, 2004 7:32 PMI have NEVER seen this happen, not once on Fedora Core 1.
I would have to agree that this must be an issue seeing you are using "Mandrake (10 RC1)".
What text editor were you using? OpenOffice? KWrite? AbiWord? Mozilla Composer? :)
You should get familiar with GIMP so this'll never happen again ;).
Posted by: bsander at March 4, 2004 10:13 PMwell,
- dont use win partitions for linux related jobs. Although such a thing never happene to me. After all windows never ever gives a damn about linux (or any other) partitions. Be happy that linux guves read-write access.
- learning gimp is not so easy, bu after some time it is very very powerfull.
maybe you forgot to mount the partition? I know, I know it is suppose to automount. If it wasn't mounted, the review might still be there.
Posted by: basic at March 5, 2004 8:41 AMIf the review is in /win/stuff when you return to Linux, you'll want to move it out before mounting /win/stuff.
Posted by: Chris Neale at March 5, 2004 11:51 AMYou just seem to me unwilling to work just a bit harder to learn the linux stuff. Writing things like "I click the Save button frequently just in case" or judging a distro on the basis of an RC release is a typical windows geek's way of thinking to me. I myself am not a great fan of linux because I prefer the BSD systems for hundreds of reasons irrelevant here and I do not think Mandrake is a good distro at all, but your judgement and the way you test the OSes is, erm, very lame..... :(
I'm afraid you are scaring many potential linux and open source software users away from what they might otherwise like very much or even prefer over their windows systems with MS's sick licenses, prices, etc., etc.