Fixing Linux

I watched a hamster install the Linux SuSe on her Lenovo IBM ThinkPad. It worked, she downloaded a few programs to her computer, and within 24 hours of setting it up, Linux died. Few days ago the 3D acceleration was turned off, which made everything painfully slow... and a reinstall was (erroneously) in order. Now for various tests, repair the SuSe system

I have no idea why this is happening... maybe the programmers put some code in to check whether a user is in China/if the other OS(s) use(s) Chinese, and if so they make it crash more often. One hit against the Chinese theory is that XP is not the Chinese/Hong Kongese/Taiwanese version. Another is that this would be a hard conspiracy to conceal since SuSe is open source.

So now I'm here sitting by the computer, waiting for the tests to be completed, hoping that another reinstall is not in order. =p