[klug] Suse 9.3 first thoughts

[Ben]

hey
      hey my SuSE is so fast its stupid
youve done something wrong
are you using reiserfs?
that is a little faster but even with the standard 3 its still like lightning
I hate when people stuff things up and blame Linux

Ben
:-)

> Forgot to add,
>
> 6) Suse is slooww, it's takes at least twice the time to launch a
> program as Mandriva    ...may have something to do with the multiple
> patched kernel (re google) and the 'real' reason it was sold on - to
> Novell    :-\
>
> peterd wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I received my Suse disc's today (re my post yesterday) and installed
> > -initial recommended then further package install.
> >
> > Well  ...I'm not happy.
> >
> > O.K. The list of packages on the five disc's is much greater than
> > Mandriva's three - in fact, with Mandriva there were quite a lot of
> > packages I had to download that are base distro packages for Suse but
> > ......
> >
> > 1) I hate those F#@$%!*y blinking cursors - so off to the Control
> > Center/Launch Feedback to kill it - well, it didn't !!
> > 2) PPP - in Mandriva it's easy to set up a dial out  ...as a 'user'
> > -In Suse I wasn't allowed, had to be root or something - just like Fedora
> > 3) Mandriva automaticly allows (through the base install) to access
> > the windows partitions - read and write, both  NTFSand Fat32  ...but
> > no, not Suse, again just like Fedora
> > 4) I posted two days ago about GTS-Qt theme swopping - Suse has that
> > package on the disc's ...but where is the short cut? In Mandriva it's
> > in KDE/Look an Feel.  - Can't find it in Suse!!!
> > 5) The Themes, Font look and the general eye candy stuff etc is much
> > nicer in Mandriva
> >
> > For sure, I'm more familiar with Mandriva and Suse does have a lot
> > going for it   ...but as I've said many times  - "I'm a desktop user
> > and all I want to do is replace windows for Linux  ... and really just
> > get on with using programs to produce stuff".     ...and well-,
> > Mandriva does seem to be the easiest for newbies el etc
> >
> > I'm posting this because as more folks become interested in Linux, I
> > believe there will be a lot just like me.
> >
> > Peter  ;-)
> >
> > BTW - I haven't as yet uninstalled Suse as I'm sure I've boiled a
> > couple of KLUG members' blood so I await your reply  :-)
> >
> >
> >
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