I just wanted to say congrats on Tumbleweed (using it here and must say with Gnome3 I’m very pleased and impressed).
I’ve not been around much on the forums, haven’t really been keeping an eye on stuff for the past few months (Real life is a pain lol). I came back to a perfect “rolling release” of my favorite OS, decided to have a switch from KDE and see what all the fuss was with gnome 3.
Decided a fresh install on my system was the way to go, installed a base 11.4 with X and updated everything from there. Went smoothly (apart from a few minor niggles with some stuff).
I’m really looking forward to the future of the project!.
I agree, Tumbleweed is something that makes openSUSE really shining among other easy-to-use distributions.
For me it’s almost must-have.
Ubuntu may have better support, it may be better looking (defaults), but not going into details I found openSUSE to be best “general use” windows replacement solution for me.
Even though I don’t like KDE nor GNOME3 a bit :shame:, I like what’s “under the hood”
On 02.09.2011 12:06, sobrus wrote:
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> I agree, Tumbleweed is something that makes openSUSE really shining
> among other easy-to-use distributions.
> For me it’s almost must-have.
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> Ubuntu may have better support, it may be better looking (defaults),
> but not going into details I found openSUSE to be best “general use”
> windows replacement solution for me.
>
> Even though I don’t like KDE nor GNOME3 a bit :shame:, I like what’s
> “under the hood”
>
There are several desktops available, try something else.
I’ve grown fond of lxdm recently, many others like xfce better (also
Linus has changed from kge to xfce)
Vahis
http://waxborg.servepics.com
openSUSE 11.2 (x86_64) 2.6.31.14-0.8-default “Evergreen” main host
openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 5 (x86_64) 3.0.0-4-desktop in VirtualBox
openSUSE 11.4 (i586) 3.0.3-42-desktop “Tumbleweed” in EeePC 900
I can go along with that, although here it’s KDE on my Tumbleweed system which is now used daily for email, browser, multimedia, and forum – so far so good.
It has helped generally with the constant flow of KDE4 updates, but avoiding the cutting edge releases. In the area of multimedia, it’s delivered improvements through kernel and ALSA upgrades wrt my hardware, and updates for the JACK sound server wrt its coexistence with PulseAudio.
@Vahis
Yes, im using Xfce with compiz right now and are very pleased with the results.
This is one openSUSE advantages. You don’t need different distro (xubuntu for example), everything is in one place, with one rolling update. Without mess.
And still, as far as I know it’s more lightweight than Ubuntu!
openSUSE is amazing, although I would probably recommend Ubuntu or Mint to less experienced users. Just because its simpler out of the box (for example Mint includes non-oss packages).
Tbh I’ve posted responses to the whole “linus on gnome 3” thing. Some people just hate change, KDE4 is coming along nicely, but i decided to go and try Gnome 3 to see what it can do and basically how far I can push it before it goes snap xD.
So far apart from a few time’s I’ve managed to get the actual shell to crash and restart, I’ve had an overall good experience with it. It’s rather annoying to adjust to at first, some things stay annoying (the applications sorting for instance), but I’m sticking with it and trying to push myself to get used to the changes or find ways that work for me to get around them. I think it has a lot of potential for growth, given time I think it can be another great addition to OpenSuse (especially knowing the work they put into integration, KDE is proof of that).
To be honest I had little GNOME3 experience, and based on fedora version.
The reason is quite simple - it just doesn’t work on ATi hardware yet (probably it would be fixed in this month!).
As for now - I don’t like it, it was hard to use it for me. But I will certainly give it one more try once drivers are fixed.
But even if I won’t use gnome shell, I will still be using GNOME3 applications under xfce
sorry for little off topic. with or without gnome3, openSUSE still rocks
