I have experienced mixed results. On my home computer, without network requirements, 8.0 works fairly well. I do have a problem with printer margins on my Canon 4300 not holding settings, cut and paste from Everybuddy to KMail doesn't work, import from Outlook Express to KMail doesn't work, and a couple of other anomalies ... but it is home and not mission-critical. Here at the office the problems are both mission-critical and more significant, and a black eye on my effort to promote Linux versus M$ Windows (Mac is not an option). At work I have additional problems with 8.0 failing to handle the Hansol Magellan 500A monitor -- patterns of garbage appear in different locations on the screen in most applications, including the SuSE/KDE desktop. I also have problems with 8.0 recognizing and communicating with the Lexmark printer across the network across the room, seeing folders on the network, Konquorer crashing, etc. ... in addition to the same problems listed re. my home computer. I am disappointed and run Yast2 auto-update every few days in hopes that some of these problems will slowly start torwards resolution. I am grateful for the KDE 3.01 update and the security updates and have observed a noticeable improvement in the originally sluggish performance. SuSE 8.0 is typical of a major release rushed to market, long on features and whiz-bang new concepts but short on thorough quality control and testing ... I am happy to serve as a post-beta tester and sure look forward to 8.1 so that I may treat SuSE as a read-for-prime-time product ... for now I am avoiding showing it off because it undermines my efforts to promote it! doc
After 4 days down, I'm back on 7.3 . 8 is *not* ready. Every weekend has been fully given-over to Suse for months now. I'll bet *they're* not this determined.
I've used Linux primarily for 3 years, but this is frightening, by any measure. I must DEPEND on my computer.
Looking back, it's traditional to have hundreds of problems with new releases, so I hope 8.1 will be usable.
If not, it is the end of Linux and beginning of Mac for me.
Alex