I have tried SuSE on my old PC a long time ago (dual boot), and it didn't seem slow at the time. In fact, every distro I've ever tried seemed more responsive than windows. But I assume things might have changed..
Ubuntu is working pretty well right now. Even my wife is addicted to Linux now, and this is her first experience with it. :) Overall it feels really stable, and although we're still learning how to tweak and use stuff, usability is high. Oh and, thanks to JTF for recommending VirtualBox. I didn't try it on Ubuntu yet, but I did on my windows machine and it's working perfectly. I have a Trac/SVN appliance, and VMWare messed something up when a power failure occurred. Couldn't boot with it anymore, so I tried VirtualBox and it worked like a charm. Sometimes, you just have to love open source... :-) On Mar 4, 4:13 am, m_buell <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to throw $.02 on this pile. I agree with Roy Charles <<All > three choices, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Fedora, and SUSE, have strong community > support.>> I don't agree with a lot of the other statements here. > > You've tried Ubuntu, it worked -- marvelous! My experience has been > different. Over the past 10 years I've tried multiple distros, > including Ubuntu, and had a few modest successes, but until now, NONE > that I kept. Too many issues. I tried Ubuntu a couple years ago - it > was running, but had too many issues to resolve. I figured if the > installs couldn't work better than they were - it was time to try > another distro. > > A couple months ago I started this process anew, after laying off for > a couple years. Tried Oracle, then Debian, then Fedora. Oracle ran > well, no java, no firefox, couldn't update. Nope. Debian ran well, > couldn't get my java working, I couldn't insure I was secure. Had some > other issues, and after a few days I hit another issue. Time for > Fedora. It ran, it updated, I could find and get java working, I got > security running, and some other priorities. > > So Fedora is up and running, and so far, so good. I'm not keen on > Ubuntu because it restricts its offerings to freeware. And, I wasn't > happy the one time I tried it. SuSe I have installed twice, a year ago > most recent. Both times it was slow, slow, slow, but worked. Fedora is > slightly slower than the Debian Gnome desktop to boot. > > So, imho, Fedora is #1, SuSe #2. Ubuntu may be fine, and seems to be > from the public response, but I don't think it is going to be the > windows-killer. BTW, Vector does a monster job with the super-slim > setup. If I knew enough about the internals and all the command > prompts, I think it would strongly tempt me. Vector is FAST. But too > many ways for me to mess up, and not enough ways to safely install all > my daily apps without messing up. > > Cheers; > M > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
