On Wednesday 16 December 2009 11:48:18 Daniel Bauer wrote:
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
Well, I must just be unlucky. Meanwhile I'm going to stick with a wired connection. Many of the posts I see here and on the opensuse forum are about getting opensuse wifi to work on laptops. I have a spare old dell gx260 and enough room on my desk at home. So I'm going to do an experiment. I'm going to install 11.2 on it and use it for a week. And nothing else. No kubuntu, no xp.See how I get on. Linux is all I use at work so it should be no problem I simply hadn't realised that so many people here seem to do that. Cheers from Lynn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org