Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (96 mails)

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On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:43, Martin Schlander wrote:
> Fredag den 26. november 2010 14:42:39 skrev Alvin Beach:
> > Does anyone have experience installing openSUSE 11.3 with KDE4 (4.5.3)?
> > This isn't specifically a KDE help email. But I use opensuse and KDE
> > exclusively on my desktop machines and I am thinking of purchasing the
> > Acer Aspire One D255 netbook for a family member. So, anyone willing to
> > share their experience with installing/using openSUSE and KDE4 on this
> > netbook would be much appreciated!

I've got an Asus EEE 1005HA that works fine on openSUSE 11.3 +
KDE4.... but the splashy effects do need to be switched off.  You can
use it with them on with my laptop, but it's not the best.  The 1005HA
is similar to the Aspire One... but not identical so overall
experience shoudl be comparable.  Basically, in general, the netbook
hardware you find on these machines works fine with openSUSE.

The KDE4 desktop can take up a large chunk of the useable desktop
space for things like the panel... or the system tray.  You can tweak
around this though by adjusting the settings (eg reducing the panel
height, and hiding most of the system tray icons) and some smart use
of desktop widgets.


> Test hardware compatibility with the liveusb before installing.

That's always a good idea regardless of computer type.


> I guess it has intel gfx which sucks major ass with 11.3

That's what mine has.  It's not a nVidia 400GTX, but it works for what
it's intended for... a mini notebook computer.


> but 3D is slow and crashy. So better make sure he doesn't need 3D,
> and don't use desktop effects as a selling point.

What do you need 3D for?  Gaming?  Gaming on a netbook is horrible
regardless of OS.  That said, I can play World of Goo with zero
problems on my EEE.


> And of course the power management will prolly be worse than the preloaded OS,
> so better check if the guy is highly sensitive about battery life and
> suspending to ram every 5 minutes.

Power management is quite good on openSUSE in my experience. I use my
netbook at conferences and while traveling... as long as I'm not
compiling kernels or some silly thing like that (pushing the CPU at
100%) I can easily get 6 or 7 hours continuous use out of my EEE.  I
turn the screen brightness down of course - which makes a HUGE
difference in battery life... don't use Bluetooth either... but
otherwise, during that 6 hours, I'll be using WiFi, Firefox,
Thunderbird, and OOo pretty much nonstop.

Suspend to RAM works fine... it's fast to wake up again as well.

C.
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