On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:58, Basil Chupin wrote:
finally got the latest driver installed. (I really pity the poor buggers who come in into oS from scratch and without any background knowledge :-( ).
openSUSE is 1000x easier to install than Windows 7 in my experience. I've installed Win7 Ultimate (for testing) on two computers... an Asus EEE 1005HA netbook, and a Zotac ZBox mini PC. In both cases, NOTHING worked properly. The install itself was not much different than openSUSE.. start the install and click a few times. After it was up and "running" things fell apart. In openSUSE, after install, everything works (WiFi, Fn keys etc)... in Windows 7, I have to hunt down drivers all over the place for every bit of hardware in the computer... I had to update the BIOS on the Asus to be able to just INSTALL the Fn key driver. Without the BIOS upgrade (which was a nightmare in itself), the install popped up error after error. On the Zotac, I still cannot get the network card working in Windows 7 after weeks of tinkering (it won't transfer data faster than 550kbps)... among other significant driver and performance issues, So, yes it requires some tinkering to get openSUSE working, but from my experience, it's a LOT easier, and more logical/straight forward than the competition. With openSUSE we've got the Wiki, the forum, and the mailing lists... what do you have if you're using Windows and things go wrong? There are no centralized sources of help like we have here. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org