I just have to say that 12.1 has restored my faith in OpenSuSE. The whole thing with KDE3 -> 4 was rough, and the issues with drivers in 11.x, but on both my AMD desktop and i7 HP laptop I have had 100% operational results with 12.1. I was with Kubuntu for a while, and when I got tired of how sluggish that was, I tried Mint (KDE *and *Debian) - and had to tweak a lot (like one had to do in OpenSuSE 11.x) and search for ‘secret’ software (like kernel headers so I could build things) - so 12.1 was just such a VERY pleasant surprise!! I’m moving everything back to OpenSuSE now - it is definitely on a par with any other OS. A couple of really, really neat features are that you can install EVERYTHING right out of the box (no searching through repos - Example: I could never get over the fact that Kubuntu only installed the FireFox installer, not FireFox itself) and the ability to boot specific OS’s during shutdown.
That’s just great, and I’m sure lots of users including me will agree with you. You don’t seem to need help, so I wonder why you chose to start the thread here as opposed to Chit-chat or even Soapbox for example? Also, not many developers use the forum.
Good move. Like Patti I had Kubuntu for a while, but as an additional distro on an old desktop. At the time its packaging of Xorg and the “openchrome” driver delivered better graphics support to the onboard VIA Unichrome Pro graphics chip. Although the performance was good, its KDE integration wasn’t as good as openSUSE, and I didn’t like the change of package management (to Kpackagekit IIRC - yeuch!). So, I dropped it as openSUSE had improved significantly in all those areas. More recently it appears that Canonical is dropping its funding of Kubuntu.
My experience with Ubuntu and clones (this is from the times of version 8.04 and 8.10) was that it was better to install Ubuntu, uninstall everything You don’t need and install KDE other then install Kubuntu itself.
I’ll agree that the latest openSUSE seems to be the best one I’ve experienced so far.
With all of the changes going on between Gnome-shell and Unity I thought I would see about openSUSE KDE for a while. I’m really liking it and when the storm blows over I just might stay.
Nah. Why do that when you can play? There are the betas (milestones/factory), and always other distros to play with.
I must admit, I am fairly happy with 12.1, but sometimes I get bored and want a challenge. I’m thinking LFS, since I have already done Gentoo and Sabayon Linux. I can’t say I have tried them all, but I have tried a lot. Some are no longer around. Some were as breif as a sumer breeze. I have spent the most time in rpm based distros. I have also done debian based and source based distros. I’ve tried installing rpm-5 to openSUSE.
If it aint broke, you haven’t played with it enough. Go play some more.
My dad used to say “Jon, if there is a way to break something, you’ll find it”. I am proud of it to
