I concur--SuSE (or any other distro) is not ready for application to the masses as a suitable home/office desktop candidate as long as there are other OS's which are much more friendly.
Well I would have said this might have been true up to the release of 7.3. I know there's a lot of luck in this in terms of hardware (tho' it clearly helps if you use mainstream stuff), but I recently had to reinstall both Windows and SuSE 7.3 when a motherboard broke. The SuSE installation was the faster and the easier of the two, and set up all hardware right first time, unlike Windows. This went down as far as the mouse-wheel, parallel port zip drive and pass-through to the printer. I was ready to run, including a decent (if not wonderful) office suite in the shape of Star Office. And this cost a *tiny fraction* of setting up anything like a similar working environment under Windows, in which I would have paid for the office suite, a graphics programme, anti-virus, you name it. 7.3 required no 'guru' tricks, which is a good thing, because I'm not one. I only boot Windows now in order to play the odd game. Just my 2 euro-cents, Best Fergus
I concur--SuSE (or any other distro) is not ready for application to the masses as a suitable home/office desktop candidate as long as there are other OS's which are much more friendly. U