... ask for help in say, this forum?
The SuSE mouse problem is very likely nothing more than a small change to a few lines in the Xconfig file.
As for "swiping" disks, use the non-automatic settings for choosing partitions and mount points (you need 3, root(/), boot (/boot), and a swap file, and you can even skip boot if you wish). Automatic means you abrogate some authority for choices, and these programs can only make a "best guess."
Choose hardware with a short look at the "Linux supported" list, and particularly avoid items that are unsupported because the manufacturer refuses to release their code base for driver development.
This bit of philosophy has netted me loads of machines, happily running linux (or bsd) on every sort of hardware imaginable. Currently, there's a Sun SparcStation 20, an SGI Indy R5000, an Apple G3, an 8500 and an 8600, scads of Intel-based machines including a dual-Xeon box and a Dell laptop, and so forth. Everything works - scanners, LCD screens, monitors, video inputs, cd and dvd players and burners, printers, loads of usb widgets, TV cards, radio cards, memory sticks, disks of all sorts, and so on. Plus I get uptimes in the "many hundreds of days, the hardware dies before I have to reboot" range. On servers which are always churning, as well as (but not just) workstations doing the basic word-processing-and-web-browsing thing.
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wwill
Yes, I'm an Open-Source Bigot
So shoot me.
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