Hi there,
I am a long time windows user slowly looking for alternatives to windows since there is no way I’m installing that malware OS they are pushing on everyone. I spent a few weeks reading about various linux distributions and and decided to try OpenSuse first. I have to say that it’s been a rough start so far.
Here are my experiences so far:
Installation went perfectly fine. First time I installed, I went with all defaults. First time I had to reinstall was because my login was not working. I reinstalled again after the OS kept freezing and I couldn’t get audio to work. I tried a live CD with Linux Mint after that. Audio worked perfectly but I had no network connection. Tried installing that (terrible installer by the way), messed up my openSuse partitions but decided to give OpenSuse another shot before giving up.
Installed it again but changed everything to XFE (at least I think that’s what it’s called) file system after reading that the default one was buggy and not recommended.
Now I’m at that final install and this where I’m at.
All my audio devices are detected by the OS, but none of them works. All 3 of them show up when you click the volume in the system tray. When I go to YaST2 to sound setup, my Edirol UA-25EX does not show up, but it shows the headset and the HDMI audio from the graphics card. When I run auto configure on the headset and select to play a test sound, the sound comes from my speakers that are hooked up to my Edirol audio interface but when I try to play a music file or go to you tube there is no sound.
The OS still randomly freezes. Is there an equivalent to the Windows Task Manager (alt+ctrl+delete) in linux?
I installed all the other available desktop environments through YaST2 and I’ll try those to see how they look and if things work better under those.
Tinkering with these things will give me the opportunity to learn about linux while it matures to a more usable OS.
I’m not in a rush to switch since MS will still support older windows versions for a few more years, but I want to be prepared to move both my computer and the ones at the company I work for to Linux when support gets cut off.
That’s it for now. I’ll give this distro a few months to show me that it can be usable.