New user, nightmare installation

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#1

Hi. I’m an Ubuntu user and decided to give openSUSE a shot, based on some sterling reviews.

I’m now running 12.1, and I’m on my desktop after first boot. Obviously, I need to install a few more things. I’ve installed (I think) restricted formats and now am wanting to install my Nvidia driver that I had in Ubuntu. The nice thing about Ubuntu is that, after my first boot, it gave me the option to install all the necessary things. Right now, I’m getting errors all over the place - I’m being told that something can’t install, then being told that it IS installed, and I don’t know how to install my Nvidia driver. I’ve clicked on the various forum links, but everything is lengthy and I have millions of windows open, making things very user-unfriendly.

What’s going on?

All I want is to install restricted formats and install my Nvidia driver (and not read lengthy posts about the history). Oh, and install Microsoft fonts.

Any help would be appreciated.

#2

I’ve managed to install the 4 recommended package managers. I THINK I’m coming along a bit better. I think I’ve installed my Nvidia driver… need to try find its settings but don’t know where they are…

#3

On 01/20/2012 12:46 PM, Forkjulle wrote:
> What’s going on?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.

please scroll up a little and notice the HUGE banner all the way across
the page which says:

This forum is NOT for asking questions, but contains submissions to be
reviewed and potentially moved to the How To/FAQ area.

so, what is going on is you are asking questions in a forum designed for
forum users to make how-to pages to help others–not ask for help…

so, three things:

-=WELCOME=- new poster (and don’t feel too bad, for SOME reason we get a
LOT of new folks in this thread asking questions)

–
DD http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat http://tinyurl.com/DD-Hardware
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Software
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!

#4

[QUOTE=DenverD;2432298](… for SOME reason we get a
LOT of new folks in this thread asking questions)

It’s the first forum in the list…

#5

closing and moving to multimedia

#6

On 01/20/2012 05:36 PM, brunomcl wrote:
>
> It’s the first forum in the list…

ah, i guess if it were the first on the list and said “(Please do not
post questions)” then people wouldn’t ask questions on it!!

Great idea!

DOH! (it says . . . )

–
DD http://tinyurl.com/DD-Caveat http://tinyurl.com/DD-Hardware
http://tinyurl.com/DD-Software
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!

#7

Moved and open