I’ve been a Kubuntu user for a couple of years now. I’ve heard during that time that there were other distros that offered a more “pure” version of KDE.
Fedora and openSUSE kept appearing on that list.
On the suggestion of a co-worker, I gave Fedora a try a few times. However i always had trouble getting what I considered basic tasks (codecs, mounting drives) to work correctly.
On a whim today I decided to frag the Kubuntu partition and install openSUSE 12.1
Wow! Just a few hours after format and installation, I’m back to normal productivity. Everything works, music is playing, and the display looks great.
There were several small “bugs” in Kubuntu that I learned to live with, and now I realize that they don’t exist in openSUSE. I’m quite pleased.
I’m also quite happy with the amount of documentation available that wasn’t available for Kubuntu. Whenever I had a question I had to scour forums or the internet. Now I can turn to the documentation, which I prefer.
Welcome to the forums SkottyK. I’m glad the distro has surpassed your expectations. Don’t be afraid of asking for help if you need it. We’re all just users and volunteers that try to help where we can.
welcome ScottyK! what you don’t know yet (except Deano just wrote it) is
that most of the developers don’t come here very often [this is mostly a
users helping users place]…so, most of the folks who “designed”
openSUSE will never see your post…
it is therefore that i ask this question to the others around here:
i think the dev’s would appreciate posts like this and wonder shouldn’t
someone post a link to it (or just quote it) to one of the mail lists?
which? project maybe?
or would is it best to ask the devs? (maybe ask AJ?)
I don’t know about the documentation part. Either that or I am not looking in the right places.
When I look something up in the Wiki I find it not so easy to pick from the list of returns, if any, because of all of this extra information not related to what I am searching for that I have to sort through. I find the Ubuntu documentation covering more situations.
On the plus side, when I do find relevant documentation, it is usually well written and includes screenshots and visual which does make things easier at times.
But I could just be searching and seeking in a way that the writers didn’t intend.
