Hello list, I also took the plunge several days ago and installed openSUSE 11 with KDE 4.1 on my laptop. The laptop is an HP nc6320 with an Intel Centrino Duo chip. I took a couple of days to familiarize myself with the new system and overall I am impressed with the speed of OS11 and also KDE 4.1. However, there are also a couple of things that annoy me or just don't work. Please note that I have not analyzed these errors (except for one), but they are things an average user of a new system would probably not be able to solve on his/her own. Please see the following list of the things I have noticed. Great things: - KDE4 feels a lot faster than KDE3 - KDE4 looks great (which is subjective) - KDE4 has a more uniform look, which is good. Makes it look more professional - Fonts look very clear - Package management is fantastic and so much faster than OS 10.3. Things not working: - No sound in KDE 4, device HDA Intel does not respond (worked out of the box on 10.3/KDE 3.5.9). Sound does work in video, but KDE4 notifications do not play - nspluginviewer slows the system to a crawl on certain webpages and then crashes - KSSH does not work, when launching a connection, the window just disappears and that's it. No crash report or anything. No output if run from Konsole. - Installation hang on 3 occasions, on known good hardware, using a known good DVD (checksum and media check). - Knetworkmanager isn't. At my house, under OS10.3, I could find 10 – 12 wireless networks, which were in a neat list. Under OS11, I can find 2 weak signal networks, and not even my own. - Video does not play, only shows a blue screen but I do have sound (solved with help from the mailinglist) - Kontact/Kmail refreshing my Exchange IMAP folders slows the system to a crawl. In addition, there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to add an Exchange calendar to Kontact. That's a bit of a miss, because (like it or loathe it) Exchange is the nr.1 groupware solution. - Can configure my fingerprint reader through Yast, but there is nowhere to configure using the fingerprint reader for logon - There's no easy way to browse an SMB/Windows network with the SuSEFirewall enabled I use this system at my place of work, mainly. Most of the environment here is Windows. Personally, I know how to work around most of the issues above, but for a novice user, this would not be possible. They would expect better integration with the Windows environment, probably. I have promised myself that I would not get involved in the whole KDE3/KDE4 debate, but I do have to say that while KDE 4.1 looks and feels great and will become even better in the future, I do feel it is not quite there yet. Some things could use some more maturing, such as the KDE PIM tools. Just my 2 cents about the migration. Feel free to respond, everyone! Regards, Joop ------------------------------------------------------------ Dit bericht is gescand op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door MailScanner en lijkt schoon te zijn. Mailscanner door http://www.prosolit.nl Professional Solutions fot IT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org