curuxz
September 20th, 2007, 03:50 PM
So I thought I would download and try out opensuse (latest) just to see what its like (also need to test some compile tools on an rpm distro but thats another story).
Anyways, let me first say wow, its really really really good. Now its been 3 years since i last installed suse, and boy has it come a long way. First impression, well having to download 3-5 iso's was a pain in the *** I have to admit but after that here is how things went:
Install:
This is one of my pet peves in ubuntu, our live install sucks balls IMHO, why? because its designed around the first time user getting it on their computer as fast as possible which ok is fine but for anyone wanting a custom install is a pain. Distros like Suse, Redhat and mandrieva have much nicer install systems which allow you to tallor your system, personally I dont mind 3 cd's in order to have just one easy prompt that says would you like gnome, kde or other instead of upteenth diffrent *buntu's for their DE.
The install was smooth, and enjoyable.
First boot
I obviously chose KDE, because well I use kde. There version of KDE looks much nicer out of the box however I dont like this new menu since its very slow to browse for applications, I much prefer old style kubuntu menu but i can see where they are going and its an intresting idea.
Good set of default apps, for instance if you chose kde they give you both konq and firefox, its not hard. the world did not end and i know how much this annoys the like of JR to keep saying this but...it would not hurt to have firefox installed by default in kubuntu.
package management
kept asking for more cd's, a real pain, and was hard to figure out if it could download from the internet if i did not have packages. Im sorry its just not as freindly as synaptic or appitiude.
I stoped playing around about here, but my main point is why cant we have a better installer for those that want it, and why cant we have our distro looking as good from the get go, its opensuse after all so we should be able to 'borrow' as many ideas as we like.
One final note, Ubuntu and Kubuntu would be 345349859384593845938495839458345 times better if we had something as good as YAST.
oh well just thought I would share my 2cents :)
Anyways, let me first say wow, its really really really good. Now its been 3 years since i last installed suse, and boy has it come a long way. First impression, well having to download 3-5 iso's was a pain in the *** I have to admit but after that here is how things went:
Install:
This is one of my pet peves in ubuntu, our live install sucks balls IMHO, why? because its designed around the first time user getting it on their computer as fast as possible which ok is fine but for anyone wanting a custom install is a pain. Distros like Suse, Redhat and mandrieva have much nicer install systems which allow you to tallor your system, personally I dont mind 3 cd's in order to have just one easy prompt that says would you like gnome, kde or other instead of upteenth diffrent *buntu's for their DE.
The install was smooth, and enjoyable.
First boot
I obviously chose KDE, because well I use kde. There version of KDE looks much nicer out of the box however I dont like this new menu since its very slow to browse for applications, I much prefer old style kubuntu menu but i can see where they are going and its an intresting idea.
Good set of default apps, for instance if you chose kde they give you both konq and firefox, its not hard. the world did not end and i know how much this annoys the like of JR to keep saying this but...it would not hurt to have firefox installed by default in kubuntu.
package management
kept asking for more cd's, a real pain, and was hard to figure out if it could download from the internet if i did not have packages. Im sorry its just not as freindly as synaptic or appitiude.
I stoped playing around about here, but my main point is why cant we have a better installer for those that want it, and why cant we have our distro looking as good from the get go, its opensuse after all so we should be able to 'borrow' as many ideas as we like.
One final note, Ubuntu and Kubuntu would be 345349859384593845938495839458345 times better if we had something as good as YAST.
oh well just thought I would share my 2cents :)