M Harris wrote: > 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... ;-) > > > Thanks much for explanation.
I fully agree with your gnome findings. Therefore I also must admit, that "Ubuntu" for me always means either _K_ubuntu for recent hardware or _X_ubuntu for older beloved treasure. Please accept my apologies for confusion. So it's Kubuntu vs. OpenSuse, where I find the Desktop Experience to be pretty similar. Back to work and thanks again Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
