[klug] Suse 9.3 first thoughts

[Ben]

On Tuesday 30 August 2005 9:19 pm, 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
not a prob if you set it up right to begin with and give your self correct 
permissions and the right group with your user account
very secure actually, great idea
> 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
huh, that weird I CAN
> 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 and Feel.  - Can't find it in Suse!!!
> 5) The Themes, Font look and the general eye candy stuff etc is much
> nicer in Mandriva
I have several GUI's to choose from and so many eye candy's it stupid
a matter of setting up your installation properly
>
> 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
yup, true, stick with mandriva if I where you!!!

>
> 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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