I’m so impressed with opensuse11 (so far) I just had to compliment everyone involved (and i hope i won’t run into some obstacle that will change my mind). I’m a total newbie in linux… but i’m just so tired and disgusted with the windows “update a day hey stop what you’re doing and let us do something like an update or something like hey buy something” repressive atmosphere I am willing to try linux even tho I assume i will lose some functionality in the online games area which is significant to me.
I started out on my Linux-from-windows adventure about 48 hours ago… researched linux distros from google as a reference point… and finally ended up trying opensuse11.
The goal is to get linux working on my asus crosshair mb with 590 chipset, bios raid 0 with 2 identical sata hdd, nvidia 8800gtx graphics, and eventually make use of wine or some similar to play Guild Wars, strategy games, and maybe some FirstPersonShooter online games. During the past 2 days I have spent approximately 18 hours installing and reading the various distros’ websites and googling about 50 linux sites on the web.
debian-no nvidiaraid - lost in the Oh Zone needing linux college degree to install/run raid and etc.
gentoo- +, no nvidiaraid
Ubuntu - +, graphics+, wine support+, no nvidiaraid
Fedora - +, nvraid+, graphics blank wall during install, lost in the Oh Zone needing linux college degree to get nividia drivers/x11 started in “text mode jungle.”
opensuse11 - +, nvraid +, install++ … waiting on nvidia repository site to come up or be available to get that <stupid> opengl shader driver for my asus(nvidia) 8800gtx graphics and see how that works…
If it Does Work… you’re probably gonna be stuck with me for a while ^-^. Like I said earlier, i’m impressed so far, and I have High Hopes for opensuse, good work!
Welcome to the forum & openSUSE. Glad to see you have been doing a bit of research,always helps when you do that.As for the Nvidia repo, seems ok to me,even http access is fine.Hopefully you will enjoy openSUSE
I played doom3 a few weeks ago on opensuse 11… works like a charm! You don’t even need wine.
I have windows xp on dual boot so that if I need to use steam or if I want to play counter-strike source I go onto there. Otherwise I use linux for the rest of my needs. I hope one day they port all games to linux like doom3, would be great! Steam esp.
If they made a linux version of steam and ported all the games I would be thrilled!
Thanks for kind welcomes!
Also I would like to add to my Linux Journal so to speak… yesterday about 3 hours after posting #1…
“Oh No!” Everything was working Perfectly off the install cd… usb sound and all usb devices recognized, automagically recognized my monitor and used correct resolution in desktop, nvraid setup easy, internet connection, devices… everything was Perfect!Looking in system info, desktop config… all was good. Not sure about the “media recorder” under multimedia… seems it didnt see the usb devices.
Then… I started looking into “updates”… after updating:
usb sound stopped working… seems some other program decided to change the sound devices to something totally weird and not even close to the bios/devices list. why oh why couldnt it just read the devices on the machine and not try to recreate a different subsystem of devices…perhaps we will never know.
the desktop stopped using the correct resolution and insisted… the desktop config that previously worked perfectly INSISTED… that my monitor was only allowed to use the wrong resolutions and refresh rates and refused to supply the correct paramaters as it had previously… in spite of the fact that the system config and the x-server config both responded to changes to the proper resolutions. the desktop ran with the wrong settings whie the other 2-3 places that allowed setting resolutions ran with acceptable settings, though still not as good as the origional install setup imho.
openSuSE11 is so perfect off the install cd, and such a kludge after updating… like, is somebody from microsoft sabotaging the update repositories? who let the 4th graders from “linux-screwups elementary school” in? LoL
Sorry … after 3 days of this, the (to me) incredible <…> of letting updates ruin a perfectly good install has me feeling just a bit frustrated… anyways, openSUSE11 is great off the unstall disk and you all did fine work on that.
Reference you updates, many newbies select a dozen or so repositories (repos), and immediately “hose” their installation.
For one’s software package manager, I always recommend 4 and only 4 repositories (repos) after an initial install (and that is all I use). Specifically OSS, Non-OSS, Update, and Packman. Just those 4. No others. None. If you wish to add more, then do so only after one is fully aware of the risks, and only for a brief adhoc time, removing the repos immediately after it is not essentially needed. Guidance for adding those 4 repos is here: Repositories/11.0 - openSUSE-Community
Ok and thanks… btw the only repository i used was the default one that is by default selected during install… i forget exactly which one that was but I assumed <cough> that it was the opensuse official one… I just clicked on the little red “you have updates to install” thingy on the taskbar… so i will try again later. Its not like the install takes very long and i’m at least confident that will go well. thanks again.
