Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1945 mails)

[Daniel Bauer <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 16 December 2009 10:57:52, lynn wrote:

> the answers have been excellent and helped a lot. Certainly several people
> have aired their views. Views which are not available locally to me.
> Reassurance that I install it and it works would be nice. With wired
> connections on a network opensuse is fine. It works well and Yast is
> excellent. What it doesn't do is work on laptops. It looks from below that
> PCLinuxOS is the only one that does.
> L x

I have opensuse 11.2 running on two HP Pavillon Laptops, one some years old 
and a brand new one. I installed it from downloaded DVD and everything just 
worked out of the box, except that for the new Laptop there was a minor bug 
with the sound that was solved within 48 hrs (!!!) after the bug report.

Both wireless and wired connections worked out of the box.

Even all this special stuff, like the hardware multimedia buttons, touchpad 
on/off, webcam, USB-TV-stick just worked without changing or adjusting any 
settings... It's fantastic! In fact, it's the first time, I could install a 
Linux so completely easy and fast.

I also installed it on a brand new cheap OS-less no-name PC: insert DVD, 
click, runs - everything, no exceptions! 

Meanwhile I updated to KDE 4.3.4 and my skepticalness about KDE 4 ended up in 
smoke (I smoke a lot). It even works perfect on a old machine, but there 
without the 3D effects (transparency etc.).

I am not a typical "fan", but I can really recommend this OS. Its better than 
anything I've ever seen before (computer related, I mean ;-) ). I use my PCs 
for work (photography, web design, php/data base programming). My friend who 
insisted on buying Crossover Office and a licensed M$-Office when I first 
installed a Dell-Laptop with 10.3) now only uses OpenOffice and the expensive 
M$-programs were not moved to his new laptop anymore...

Unfortunately I needed to buy an XP CD and use it in a VirtualBox because of 
my camera manufacturers bad habit to deliver Mac and W software only. But 
since I can cut and paste between the VirtualBox window and the rest of my 
machine and use shared folders, it's not really a problem - except that I have 
to double-click within XP...

So, sorry: cannot report anything bad here...

kind regards

Daniel
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