I am just now taking the leap of faith to Linux from Win and MAC. I despise Windows and now am sick of the Bull with the MAC company. I’ve been wanting to do this for years. My first Linux was 9.1 SUSE “I think it was”. I thought wow what a work of art then. Now’… I am just WOW! This **** is awesome.
I have tried all the Linux’s here and there. Yes’ Ubuntu and Mint are good too. Mint probably the better but, SUSE has it beat in my book now. SUSE is stable, easy to use, and just works good. I am new to Linux and really had a time trying to get SUSE to work in the 90’s. This time around with 12.2…Wow easy as hell and not a glitch yet. I feel it’s stable too. That is what I do, is see if my dumb butt can crash it by messing with settings and such. I crashed Ubuntu and Mint pretty quick. SUSE so far, has let me mess with alot and still boots and works fast and stable. Mind you I run them in Parallels on MAC so it is easy to recover from a crash and try again.
Now’ I have installed SUSE on a spare LAP Top of mine at work as a non managed system, and I use it to brows the net on my spare time. I just wish the Govt would use SUSE now.
Very happy to hear that you are happy using openSUSE. Since this is not a request for help, but a message of joy, please hold of on any comments until I move this to the Chit-Chat forum. Its OK pmoss, it happens all of the time. Don’t worry and you will get a reply in no time.
Welcome new poster and happy to hear you are liking using openSUSE. If you are feeling daring, why not have a look at my Bash Script Download Bonanza you can find here:
Basically, if you can save just the text in the code block into your $HOME/bin folder as the text file bsl, then mark it as executable, open up terminal session and type in the command bls at the terminal prompt, you will get a copy of some 26 bash scripts, ready to run. Some you will like and use, others you don’t need, but one thing is for sure, the price of $0 is good and life is good using openSUSE.
@pmoss welcome to openSUSE, I think. You refer to SUSE, are you using the enterprise version?
What desktop are you using KDE or Gnome?
I too find openSUSE to be a nice stable linux distribution for all the computers I currently own. This includes a macbook pro (old one) and a couple intel desktop type machines.
What won me over was zypper, Yast2, KDE, forums help (community), additional repos and package search for updated software.
Plus, it seems to just work. Maybe I am just lucky.
Congratulations on finding your new home.
For the best user experience I don’t recommend trying to bust your system, it’s easy if you try Believe it or not, many manage it without trying.
Enjoy
I would also like to express my satisfaction with this 12.2 suse version. I follow suse since 7.1 and this time was the first ever I had a problem free installation. And this means a lot because I usually have very dodgy machines. This time it was an aspire 5742 with a cracked bios, a 580m testlot unofficial cpu, 8gb ddr3 1000 ram, 250 gb sd hd. Even windows 8 did not work on this rig. I installed from live cd and after less than 1 hour I was up and running. This is about two month now and only minor glitches occurred. I am really impressed. Thanks a lot and I promise once my little one is in school I will get involved more.
I can most definitely agree with you on this! First, I have my Suse Linux 9.0 books sitting on the shelf above my desk. I didn’t know if I would ever use them again, but they have helped a little. I was just asked recently by my supervisor to put together an openSUSE box and put Nagios on it… then test it.
I’ve run Ubuntu at home and, well to be honest, it’s… meh. Just not feeling it. I had to play with RHEL for a college class… but it wasn’t all that thrilling to me. But I’m really enjoying openSUSE…
As for the government using SUSE… well, you never know, things do change!
Believe it or not, many manage it without trying.