On 01/14/2012 01:33 PM, Robert Schweikert wrote:
On 01/14/2012 07:13 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
Hi,
I have been using openSUSE (with KDE) for a couple of months now since 12.1 was released. I am a journalist and mostly use it as an average Joe. I am working on a series of articles around my experience with openSUSE and to offer it to those who are not happy with a 'particular' Linux based OS. My question to the community here is: is openSUSE recommended for home users?
There is certainly nothing wrong with home users using openSUSE. We try to take the so called "ease of use" (whatever that means) argument into account. However, openSUSE does not go out of it's way to "dummify" the interface such that it is in the end useless.
I agree.
Reading the strategy (http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Strategy) my provide the answers you are looking for. Not everything around this topic is necessarily easy to express and as such not everything will be spelled out.
In my own experience, I have addressed a lot of issues that I faced when I migrated to openSUSE. It was just that I needed to look in the right direction, which I am learning. I want to share the same experience with other users. I just wanted to make sure that I won't end up targeting the audience which is not the audience of openSUSE. Fedora, for example, can be very challenging to use if someone has proprietary hardware or wants an out-of-the box solution. I was triple booting with Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE but Fedora refused to boot after a certain time some systemd issues. I don't want that with my user :-) And one more thing, I would like to thank the helpful openSUSE community who always pulled me out of the problems that I faced with the OS. I am not a developer so I can't contribute the code. Only way I can contribute is by filing bug reports and by writing about it :-) Thanks.
HTH, Robert
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