On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 07:23 +0100, Clayton wrote:
I did the whole Ubuntu/Kubuntu thing on base metal installs, not VMware or VBox. Installation was fine... very slick.. it wasn't until after the install that Ubuntu started to show it's warts. Skype setup for example... a nightmare if you want to use anything other than your default device due to the whole Pulse Audio thing. Other setup and confgurations were weak to useless... like multimonitor setup... I plug in a beamer to the laptop and try to get it configured... it's def possible but a pain.
This has been my experience with Ubuntu. When I try it I always think "why don't they port YaST?" openSUSE is still the only distro with a comprehensive set of administrative tools.
I installed 11.2 on the same laptop... after a few teething problems that were fixed by doing the install from the DVD instead of the KDE Live CD, it's working smooooooooth. Skype just works... plugging in beamers... works.. no hassle. Setup... same as always with openSUSE... hardware all auto identified and configured correctly without me having to do a thing.
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