Is it just me or what? I'm getting the impression that with every new version of SuSE (after 9.1) things are going awry. Sure, there will be little niggles after all, I wouldn't expect any software maker to be able to test for every eventuality. But these are fairly basic errors that just should not be occurring. What's going on? I have to admit that I'm still not 100% happy with 9.2 and may well revert back to 9.1 I was going to get 9.3 but I'm really not sure whether I should. I'm sorry but I shouldn't, as an end user feel this way. It reminds me too much of the bad old M$ days (they have improved greatly).
Don't forget that you are seeing only a few posts of people having problems... those of us that installed 9.3 and didn't have any problems aren't posting complaints :-) Upgrades (vs clean installs) have ALWAYS been a problem. Even MS couldn't get upgrades to work 100%. Too much debris from the previous install would interfere with the newer software. Look back in the archives at the loads of problems people have going the upgrade route. If look at the history... there are way way way less problems and complaints with upgrades than there used to be... It's not perfect, but it's way better than it used to be. That said I still always do a clean install - just the same as I do if I'm installing a new version of any OS. I did a clean install of 9.3 and have had no problems at all. Everything just worked. My scanner works, my camera works, my funky Linux keyboard works... all the apps I installed work fine (at least the ones I've tried in the last couple days)... I was also somewhat disappointed with 9.2, but 9.3 is nice. Performance (on my system at least) is greatly improved, apps start up quicker etc. There have only been a relatively few postings of problems, and most are in special cases where there is some funky configuration... for the thousands of installs that have happened in the last few days, that's not too bad :-)