On Wednesday 18 April 2007 14:45, Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> Just for curiosity: How did you objectively compare the two and what
> made suse better?
>
> I am working with both and, seriously, I cannot say, which is
> objectively better. Even from a subjective view, I fear, I cannot tell.
The drivers are not as complete in Ubuntu... I have hardware that will
not
load Ubuntu... openSUSE loads just fine.
Yast makes the Ubuntu installer look like a rock... and frankly... the
Yast
installer is more intuitive, better organized, better automated, and more
reliable... so far in my experience.
openSUSE is way more complete... and what I mean by that is that it
ships
with far more packages. Yeah, yeah, Ubuntu ships on one CD... big deal.
And unless you go with Kubuntu, the gnome desktop experience of Ubuntu
as
objectively compared with the kde experience of openSUSE is disappointing.
Not to mention that the base distro of openSUSE gives the user the choice of
desktops... Ubuntu has just one... and its not the best.
And this is my personal favorite... after I loaded Ubuntu (forgetting
to load
gcc at install time) I went back and installed gcc from the install media...
and then compiled "hello world" with terrible errors... libs not found.
After manually installing and installing and installing I finally got all
the pieces installed to successfully compile "hello world". Forget to
install gcc in Yast... no big deal... simply select the category and go...
correctly finds all dependencies, pieces parts, and installs no hits no runs
to errors.... and "hello world" compiles the first time. I guess this is
just another Yast kudo.
There is more desktop/system integration in openSUSE. I know that much
of
this is kde, but a great deal of this is the touches openSUSE has made to the
desktop, yast, control panel, utilities and so forth... its just more
seamless... and yet its very intuitive and easily customized. Well, ok, some
of this is subjective on my part... ;-)
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