Kai Ponte wrote: > Okay, out of curiosity, I downloaded Feisty Fawn yesterday and booted it > to my laptop. I wanted to see what all the fuss over Ubuntu was, particularly > since I've been using SUSE for the past two or so years. > > Here's a screenshot on my laptop: > > http://www.perfectreign.com/files/images/20070423_ubuntu_feisty.png > > It booted okay, and recognized my hardware on both my laptop and desktop. > To its credit, it even picked up my volume control buttons and my > wireless NIC. Not bad. It was a little disconcerting at first, when I > couldn't auto-attach to my router. However, I realized I don't broadcast > my SSID. All was well, once I typed it in. > > Here's my honest take - I like SUSE better. Why? Well, it is more > polished. I spent two minutes trying to figure out how to change my > resolution on my screens and how to mount my hard drive. Neither task was > intuitive. On SUSE both are very easy. > > SUSE adds a lot to the default KDE > desktop that makes my life easier. In fact, I was just showing one of my > senior programmers the difference between Ubunutu and SUSE with YaST. He > agreed with me that YaST makes the difference. (I sent him off with a > 10.2 live DVD.) > > Now, don't get me wrong - I'm not bashing Ubuntu - but to me, I'll stick > with SUSE >
Well, personally I tried a bunch of Linux distros, including Ubuntu, and finally settled on openSUSE. I know the whole Novell thing is anathema to some, but it was a distro that just worked, out of the box, for me and my slightly offbeat setup. I used Ubuntu for about a week, when things started to go wrong and there were enough annoyances to send me back on the Linux trail. I wrote about my quest here: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000852.html http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000853.html http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000856.html I've been using openSUSE for about a month now and am still incredibly pleased. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
