Well haven’t played a game for quite a while but the prey demo ran fine.
Didn’t have problems with World of Warcraft under wine either.
There is also some games by default in the repositories, if that isn’t enough for you… take a look at openSUSE.org/Games, repositories listed there for openSUSE 10.3 till 11.1+ dedicated to games.
both OpenGL and mesa support were much slower than debian and fedora
Did you install the videocard drivers for openSUSE? This would give a huge performance increase if you have an ATI or NVIDIA videocard.
If you’re using an ATI card that would explain the difference as they’re awfully slow in getting an 11.1 repository up and the only way to get them installed is by compiling the drivers yourself.
Compatibility is more important than security. I do not use any security feature in any OS. If you maintain weekly updated images of all your partitions, you can safely run everything as root. That restores everything perfectly than any virus recovery procedure
Not running as root is not adviced just for your own personal safety but also to make sure your computer doesn’t abuse your net connection for all kinds of malicious activities, for example you might not notice yourself but your computer could be used to send spam or perhabs it’s taking part in DOS attacks?
Also open Suse lacks simple thing as mouse double click timing control. All previous KDE did have such control (in look and feel control) to accommodate someone with arthritis like myself who badly need such feature
Assume you are running KDE 4.x now then?
If so simply click in sequence.
- Launcher icon (bottom left ‘start’ button)]Configure Desktop (under favorites by default).]General tab ]Keyboard & Mouse (last row in the window)]Mouse (left side)*]Advanced (tab)
Now you find a form field labeled ‘Doubleclick interval’ which by default is set at 400ms, if you have problems with it I suggest trying a higher value.
PS:
Next time you might want to make a post the moment you run into a problem as it seems you got frustrated over a lot of things dumping them into one big ‘combination’ post.
Peoples attention spans nowadays are short and a lot of people will click back the back button in their browser once they see so much text.
Making a thread for each problem is more likely to get your questions answered.