[opensuse] Why I Use SUSE (a.k.a. Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Review)
Okay, out of curiosity, I downloaded Feisty Fawn yesterday and booted it to my laptop. I wanted to see what all the fuss over Ubuntu was, particularly since I've been using SUSE for the past two or so years. Here's a screenshot on my laptop: http://www.perfectreign.com/files/images/20070423_ubuntu_feisty.png It booted okay, and recognized my hardware on both my laptop and desktop. To its credit, it even picked up my volume control buttons and my wireless NIC. Not bad. It was a little disconcerting at first, when I couldn't auto-attach to my router. However, I realized I don't broadcast my SSID. All was well, once I typed it in. Here's my honest take - I like SUSE better. Why? Well, it is more polished. I spent two minutes trying to figure out how to change my resolution on my screens and how to mount my hard drive. Neither task was intuitive. On SUSE both are very easy. SUSE adds a lot to the default KDE desktop that makes my life easier. In fact, I was just showing one of my senior programmers the difference between Ubunutu and SUSE with YaST. He agreed with me that YaST makes the difference. (I sent him off with a 10.2 live DVD.) Now, don't get me wrong - I'm not bashing Ubuntu - but to me, I'll stick with SUSE -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Kai Ponte wrote:
Okay, out of curiosity, I downloaded Feisty Fawn yesterday and booted it to my laptop. I wanted to see what all the fuss over Ubuntu was, particularly since I've been using SUSE for the past two or so years.
Here's a screenshot on my laptop:
http://www.perfectreign.com/files/images/20070423_ubuntu_feisty.png
It booted okay, and recognized my hardware on both my laptop and desktop. To its credit, it even picked up my volume control buttons and my wireless NIC. Not bad. It was a little disconcerting at first, when I couldn't auto-attach to my router. However, I realized I don't broadcast my SSID. All was well, once I typed it in.
Here's my honest take - I like SUSE better. Why? Well, it is more polished. I spent two minutes trying to figure out how to change my resolution on my screens and how to mount my hard drive. Neither task was intuitive. On SUSE both are very easy.
SUSE adds a lot to the default KDE desktop that makes my life easier. In fact, I was just showing one of my senior programmers the difference between Ubunutu and SUSE with YaST. He agreed with me that YaST makes the difference. (I sent him off with a 10.2 live DVD.)
Now, don't get me wrong - I'm not bashing Ubuntu - but to me, I'll stick with SUSE
Well, personally I tried a bunch of Linux distros, including Ubuntu, and finally settled on openSUSE. I know the whole Novell thing is anathema to some, but it was a distro that just worked, out of the box, for me and my slightly offbeat setup. I used Ubuntu for about a week, when things started to go wrong and there were enough annoyances to send me back on the Linux trail. I wrote about my quest here: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000852.html http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000853.html http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000856.html I've been using openSUSE for about a month now and am still incredibly pleased. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Kai Ponte wrote:
SUSE adds a lot to the default KDE desktop that makes my life easier. In fact, I was just showing one of my senior programmers the difference between Ubunutu and SUSE with YaST. He agreed with me that YaST makes the difference. (I sent him off with a 10.2 live DVD.)
Now, don't get me wrong - I'm not bashing Ubuntu - but to me, I'll stick with SUSE
I agree. I am often experimenting with different distros but SUSE remains my 'base". The ability to easily configure my system means a lot. Setup NIS? Easy with Yast. Add a new disk, partition it? Easy with Yast. NTP? That too. Many, many common configuration tasks are very straight-forward under SuSE but are a struggle with most other distros. Mandriva is the only one to my knowledge that comes close. Here too SUSE wins out in that if I loose X I can still run Yast in text mode! - Bruce -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Kai Ponte wrote:
Okay, out of curiosity, I downloaded Feisty Fawn yesterday and booted it to my laptop. I wanted to see what all the fuss over Ubuntu was, particularly since I've been using SUSE for the past two or so years.
Here's a screenshot on my laptop:
http://www.perfectreign.com/files/images/20070423_ubuntu_feisty.png
It booted okay, and recognized my hardware on both my laptop and desktop. To its credit, it even picked up my volume control buttons and my wireless NIC. Not bad. It was a little disconcerting at first, when I couldn't auto-attach to my router. However, I realized I don't broadcast my SSID. All was well, once I typed it in.
Here's my honest take - I like SUSE better. Why? Well, it is more polished. I spent two minutes trying to figure out how to change my resolution on my screens and how to mount my hard drive. Neither task was intuitive. On SUSE both are very easy.
SUSE adds a lot to the default KDE desktop that makes my life easier. In fact, I was just showing one of my senior programmers the difference between Ubunutu and SUSE with YaST. He agreed with me that YaST makes the difference. (I sent him off with a 10.2 live DVD.)
Now, don't get me wrong - I'm not bashing Ubuntu - but to me, I'll stick with SUSE
It went SuSE and Mandrive as my 1 & 2. My story: SuSE was the first Linux I successfully installed. I don't know whether or not that says more about SuSE or me, but that's where I will stay. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 04:30:35 pm Pueblo Native wrote:
Now, don't get me wrong - I'm not bashing Ubuntu - but to me, I'll stick with SUSE
It went SuSE and Mandrive as my 1 & 2. My story: SuSE was the first Linux I successfully installed. I don't know whether or not that says more about SuSE or me, but that's where I will stay.
Yeah, Mandrake was a decent application. As someone else mentioned it had the control center. The thing that made me switch to SUSE (9.1), however, was the support for my USB printer, which Mandrake 10 couldn't even see. Ever since then, I've been on SUSE. -- kai Free Compean and Ramos http://www.grassfire.org/142/petition.asp http://www.perfectreign.com/?q=node/46 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
participants (4)
-
Bruce A. Mallett
-
Jonathan Arnold
-
Kai Ponte
-
Pueblo Native