Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

["Amedee Van Gasse" <amedee@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, August 2, 2008 19:51, John Andersen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've been a happy SuSE user for a number of years now (since
> > 5.0) as well as Linux since about 1993 (Yggdrasil).

I've been using Linux since Mandrake started. (when was that? '98? '99?)
Used Unix at uni before that.
Switched to Gentoo for two years, then switched to Ubuntu for the last 3
years.
Since two weeks, I'm using Opensuse 11.0, and this is my first post on
this mailing list.

> Yesterday and new Dell XPS laptop arrived here with Ubuntu installed.
>
> Everything worked out of the box.  Everything.  No dicking around with
> repositories, no fighting video drivers, no manually loading WIFI drivers,
> music played perfectly, DVDs played perfectly, if found my local windows
> network, found my HpPrinter/scanner/fax and printed scanned and faxed
> perfectly thru it.  The DVD burner software worked.  The automatic update
> software found, reported, and installed updates.
> Everything, even non-core features worked. *cough*.
>
> Even the Fingerprint reader worked.

Lack of hardware support was exactly the reason why I switched from Ubuntu
to Opensuse. It found my bluetooth dongle[*], it correctly identified my
vga card *and* my monitor (first distro ever that did this!), it even
identified an internal modem that I didn't even know existed!

[*] With Opensuse, I didn't have to open a bug report and then wait for
2,5 years for nothing to happen.

> There was at least 30 hours of work that would have been beyond the
> capability of the machines owner (wife) that was completely avoided
> by ordering Linux pre-installed.  Too bad it couldn't have been Opensuse,
> but Ubuntu will do for her needs.

I agree. *Any* distro will do. Suppliers will tweak them to work smoothly
with their hardware anyway, and for the rest of us, installing another
distro is always an option.

-- 
Amedee

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