Hi all Im a new user to Suse and looking forward to having a great experience. Ive been using Linux for a few years now but havent strayed away from Debian based distros as I feel that they are my comfort zone. Lately though Ive been feeling board with my desktop so I thought I switch things up a little by trying out rpm/yast but there are some things I need to know before i get started so i dont mess up my install (which Ive already done once). K, so to start let me just say that Im using the KDE4 version.
After I installed the first time I found that it would freeze up at random spots, like during boot (not always though). Is this a common problem that is solved by grabbing some updates or is it just me and my machine do you think? (Compaq Presario F500)
Upon clean install how do I properly set up my updates? I tried it once and it asked me which repos I wanted to use, so I chose the ones I figured were needed. That led to a download window that seemed never ending, lol. Am I not supposed to select anything from that window? And if so can u elaborate on which ones I really need.
How should I go about getting my nvidia card properly installed?
Thats all I can think of for now and thanks in advance, your help is appreciated.
1 - Haven’t noticed openSUSE freezing at all here. Not sure.
2 - I never really use their “update” service, which only pulls out specific security updates. I generally just open up “Install Software”, select repositories, and then System. Then I right click in the packages window and select “Update all”. It updates every package on my box.
As for other generic openSUSE advice, I wouldn’t use KDE 4 unless you update to the very latest KDE 4.1 betas. Let me know if you have any more questions.
