Comment Switched from Mandrake 9 (Score 1) 406
I absolutely love it. I've tried several versions of each, have used several iterations of Red Hat, and I think I've finally settled.
The first install was difficult, but that was because I was installing it via ftp, and had several false starts after DSL acted up and a hard drive needed to be reformatted. The second computer installed flawlessly. In the future, for work and perhaps even home, I would choose to buy it. The polish is fantastic. With Mandrake, I had to put in a lot of effort to install certain common software because I had to compile from source, and numerous standard libraries were not installed. I haven't had to compile much because there are seemingly more packages for SuSE. The online update is slick, although I have little to compare it to. I use RH's up2date, but only the command-line version as it's on my firewall.
The KDE install feels much richer than the one in Mandrake. I've always preferred KDE, and now I'm really starting to have fun with it.
The basic networking options were the main reason I switched from Mandrake. It was infinitely easier to setup name, file and printer sharing in SuSE, as it is all built right into YaST and installed by default. I program for a living; the last thing I want to do is spend forever reading documentation and configuring software when I can be so much more productive with a nice tool set. I'll play on my own time.
All in all, a very nice distro. I don't mean to rag on Mandrake at all, just that I can best compare to it because I used it until recently. I switched to it some time ago after trying SuSE 8.2, so perhaps I'll switch again.
I'm looking forward to 9.2, with the 2.6 kernel and KDE 3.2. I think we'll also be in for a laptop this fall, which will be a substantial improvement from the silky-smooth P2 450's we're both running SuSE on.
And did I mention my wife loves it too? ;)
The first install was difficult, but that was because I was installing it via ftp, and had several false starts after DSL acted up and a hard drive needed to be reformatted. The second computer installed flawlessly. In the future, for work and perhaps even home, I would choose to buy it. The polish is fantastic. With Mandrake, I had to put in a lot of effort to install certain common software because I had to compile from source, and numerous standard libraries were not installed. I haven't had to compile much because there are seemingly more packages for SuSE. The online update is slick, although I have little to compare it to. I use RH's up2date, but only the command-line version as it's on my firewall.
The KDE install feels much richer than the one in Mandrake. I've always preferred KDE, and now I'm really starting to have fun with it.
The basic networking options were the main reason I switched from Mandrake. It was infinitely easier to setup name, file and printer sharing in SuSE, as it is all built right into YaST and installed by default. I program for a living; the last thing I want to do is spend forever reading documentation and configuring software when I can be so much more productive with a nice tool set. I'll play on my own time.
All in all, a very nice distro. I don't mean to rag on Mandrake at all, just that I can best compare to it because I used it until recently. I switched to it some time ago after trying SuSE 8.2, so perhaps I'll switch again.
I'm looking forward to 9.2, with the 2.6 kernel and KDE 3.2. I think we'll also be in for a laptop this fall, which will be a substantial improvement from the silky-smooth P2 450's we're both running SuSE on.
And did I mention my wife loves it too?
