Tried OpenSuSe today, Enjoyed it for the first few minutes..and then

[Crash 0verride]

Hey, I tried OpenSuSe 11 today it was great I loved it.
At first the Console freaked me out but I calmed down quick cause I understood what it was saying, Then i installed....Slow installation

I was like alright it may load slow but it should speed up when I get off the live cd.

Then I delt with partitions. Horrible all the advanced Partitioning stuff. A friend walked me through it on #opensuse-chat irc
I enjoyed hanging out with them and now I can partition in advance easily and I did it when I re-installed Ubuntu

I got in OpenSuSe I got nailed with slow speed. I patched it. 300KB a sec
:o WHAT! I get 10MB a sec on Ubuntu and if I tweak my Ubuntu like Hell i can pull 100MB the max for my ISP

But this slow speed was killing me so....I watched a movie in the living room came back and was done. I began downloading my favorite game: Net-Hack 3D. ERROR: OpenGL is not enabled because OpenSuSe didn't let me choose to install Restricted Hardware Drivers. Doh! So I was like fine. I began installing the drivers off there site when I found it. Then I wanted to listen to music on the wait....Nope no codecs. And banshee was a failure with codecs too. So another package, and another. WELL after that was done I

Started Up Net-Hack...Nope
Need to restart computer. I restarted Came back. Half my widgets and stuff like my Computer bar, Notes, Processor Monitor, Shutdown....
Pretty much everything that was on my GNOME bars was F*cked up

No program would start other than folders.

......My background was gone and it ****** my **** up. I got OpenSuSe Customized The way I like it and BOOM! Error. Since I couldn't get on Pidgin I was forced to FORMAT my HD and get Ubuntu back....
Sucked.

I was rather enjoying OpenSuSe's Style and Beauty but....Error..
It was new territory the only OS I use are Win95,XP,Vista and Ubuntu
But OpenSuSe wasn't based on Debian so it was new and I loved it..Wish I could go back but I can't handle more problems like that.

[mike1234]

The fact that Microsoft pumped about 500 million into Novells coffers is probably why it's not friendly with codecs and related media apps. Shame on you Novell.

M.

[RedDwarf]

The fact that Microsoft pumped about 500 million into Novells coffers is probably why it's not friendly with codecs and related media apps.
Can you define "probably", please?

The relation you made is
a) not obvious and neither argumented
b) wrong

'b' can be easily demonstrated just notting that Novell was "not friendly with codecs and related media apps" also before the Microsoft deal. It wasn't really so difficult, true?
'a' says me you are not commenting, you are just trolling.

[Vince4Amy]

If you have a problem with Novell I suggest you stop using Ubuntu. Novell have supported a lot of applications and helped a lot of them become what they are today, some applications in Ubuntu have Novell work in them.

[exploder]

Yes, I believe Novell is responsible for Evolution.

[cardinals_fan]

Yes, I believe Novell is responsible for Evolution.
They are major contributors to Evolution, Mono (and, therefore, F-Spot, Tomboy, and GNOME-Do), GNOME itself, and many other projects. When people go on anti-Novell rants, I just shake my head and laugh quietly.

[Antman]

The fact that Microsoft pumped about 500 million into Novells coffers is probably why it's not friendly with codecs and related media apps. Shame on you Novell.

M.
What are you talking about?!?!?!?!?!
Both Debian and Fedora lack out-of-the-box codec support also, and it has NOTHING to do with a MS deal.