Wendell Nichols wrote:
I'm normally all over a new distro by now but I just got my T61p laptop working properly with Suse 10.3 (video drivers for nvidia that work with suspend resume were hard to find). I've trolled through the enhancements etc and just can't find any compelling reason to think that laptop support has improved in 11.0. Indeed there seem to be lots of people complaining about knetworkmanager, and no one raves about its bluetooth support. These are not the sort of things you can test in a VM... so what say you? What are the absolutely great things about 11.0?
I'm of 2 minds about suse 11.0. On the one hand, there is my experience with upgrading my work machine from 10.3 to 11.0, and on the other hand, my son's experience upgrading his laptop from 10.2 to 11.0 last night. On my work machine, I went with gnome, as I wanted to give it a try. Unfortunately I was plagued with problems - for instance, I couldn't set up a printer because the printer setup app would crash and burn every single time I tried it. The online update applet would fail every time, so there was an endless loop of red notification icon and "updates available", package downloads, crash and burn, and back to the update notification. Other important apps would crash too, and by the end of the week I'd had it, and decided to switch to ubuntu 8.04, which had been rock solid on my laptop. In one last mad fling, I installed the kde3 pattern, and once I logged into kde3, sanity reigned. I could create a printer. Online update worked. There are a few little issues, but nowhere near the problems I had with gnome. OTOH my son's laptop upgrade from 10.2 to 11.0 was a breeze. All the things that didn't work at all in 10.2, such as the headphones and the webcam, worked out of the box in 11.0, and he remarked about the improvement in software management and online update speed, and said the video was sharper and faster as well. He's a long time kde user and went with kde 3.5 I guess the moral of the story is, if you use kde 3.5, suse 11.0 is a good update. On the server side it's seems to be fairly solid as well. Otherwise, I'd wait for 11.1 Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org