"Freedom to choose" is an argument I keep hearing time and time again. It may be true for Linux experts, for laymen like myself this freedom is yet to be discovered. Right now I feel much more freer setting up and controlling Windows than SuSE.
I might add, not only does it have the freedom to choose, but it is also a lot easier to setup SuSE or Mandrake on a system than it is Windows (so long as the hardware is supported - most is). That's the real freedom, IMO. All of the apps, drivers, everything installed when you first install the system. I had reinstalling Windows down to a science (since I had to do it every year or so when the Win install died), and it still took me days to get everything right in it.
Contrary to what you are saying I didn't find SuSE more difficult to install, even though I still can't get my sound card working. The difficult part (... to accept) was the 900 MEG required by default system
That's less than a basic XP install, and trust me, it does a whole lot more.
without Office. Furthermore, I find SuSE very slow as compaired to Windows, especially file search which is not only slow but unacceptably slow. This was by far the greatest surprise and disappointment.
I don't find file searching very slow at all. I'm curious how you go about searches? As far as app speed though, unfortunately for now, Linux has some performance bottlenecks. :-( -Tim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler | Universal Networks | http://www.uninet.info tbutler@uninetsolutions.com ICQ: 12495932 AIM: Uninettm Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============== "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============