.... man, this is awesome

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#1

Today I switched over to openSUSE as my main OS and I just have to say that this is awesome.

This is the first distro I’ve ever used where I didn’t need to set any unorthodox boot parameters to have it run compatible with my hardware. In the live disk, my resolution was absolutely perfect. I’m actually running on my monitor’s native resolution using the open-source drivers and it’s performing rock solid. Installation was extremely easy, boot is intensely quick.

Now I just need to learn everything…

Some background: I’ve mostly stayed on the Debian (variant), Ubuntu, and Arch side of Linux since I found it a few years back. This is my first time ever on the Slackware side. I decided to try openSUSE from it being a successful operating system for so long. Community seems nice (from many forum threads I read over the years), and seems to be pretty stable from what I hear.

I’m poking around the web to find some tips on starting with openSUSE. If anyone has anything that might be useful, feel free to pass them my way.

I need coffee for the rest of this night…

#2

Typically the open drivers work well, but may struggle with HD graphics/video and so most people install proprietary drivers, be it ATI or nVidia.

You might want to look at the multimedia guide:
http://forums.opensuse.org/content/127-multimedia-restricted-formats-installation-guide-12-2.html

Welcome to openSUSE

#3

On 2012-11-10 06:56, paul esque wrote:
> I’m poking around the web to find some tips on starting with openSUSE.

doc.opensuse.org

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” (Minas Tirith))

#4

On 11/10/2012 06:56 AM, paul esque wrote:
> I’m poking around the web to find some tips on starting with openSUSE.
> If anyone has anything that might be useful, feel free to pass them my
> way.

-=WELCOME=- new poster!!

do more poking around opensuse.org than “around the web”…i say because
last week some body was here asking why his machine was broke…he was
following a guide he found somewhere (where was it, maybe
guides.sourceforge.net ??) which was absolutely giving bad advice…

and, even when poking around [doc | forums | en | lists].openSUSE.org be
SURE to note the age of the ‘tips’ and the version they relate
to…because this is a pretty fast moving target, and there are LOTs of
tips for 11.x that are absolutely worthless for 12.x

well, on the other hand there are also lots of things to find about
(say) SuSE 9.x that are good to go on 12.3–good luck.

oh, and here is a post i wrote a couple of years back, i guess some
(many?) of the links are stale, but maybe you find some use in
http://tinyurl.com/3a5rong

live long and prosper,

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dd