I'm what you might consider a part-time linux user. I'm desperatley trying to make the leap to a 100% Linux desktop but I'm currently having issues with World of Warcraft and my Audio apps such as Acid and Soundforge (to be fair I haven't tried Acid or Soundforge in a VMWare environment yet but plan to try with Drake).
I was eager to try out the XGL/Compiz desktop and had a chance to install the 10.1 SuSE retail DVD so I decided to go for it. I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to install. I've never had any issues with any SuSE installs in the past (since 9.0) and after reading horror stories about how 10.1 has destroyed some systems I was a little nervous!
Anyway, once I had installed and tidied up a few things (removed Zen Updater and installed Smart, disabled Beagle) XGL/Compiz was a piece of cake to install, as were the ATI drivers. I was spinning my desktop in under half an hour.
However, the thing that turned me to Ubuntu in the past and will keep me here is that SuSE is rammed to the nines with things I'll *never* use and Ubuntu has the things you *need* and an easy way to get the things you *want*.
As long as Drake has Gnome, XGL, Compiz, Firefox and is stable then I'm there. With Smart package manager too it's going to prove to be a mighty contender to SuSE 10.1.
All Ubuntu needs to do now is face the mighty Novell and convince my bosses that it can do whatever ever SuSE and NLD can do. We're Novell here at work and are migrating our Novell servers to OES.
I'd love the chance to install an Ubuntu server.
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