SuSE is ummm weird

[wjp.reg]

I am surprised that so many people do not like YAST. Apart from the package management, which is a dog compared to the apt tools, I like YAST. I like the idea of having all the important admin stuff together. I would indeed like if ubuntu would adopt and adapt the good parts of YAST... just a thought...

I find myself in the same "corner" as nickle; I see YaST as a strength, perhaps only for noobs like me , whereas more experienced linux users may find it gets in the way. I too would like to see some adoption of a YaST concept in ubuntu, especially for the beginner. Whether you use it or not would be your choice.

[riff_79]

I use both SUSE and Ubuntu/Kubuntu. I find they run relitivitly the same, in terms of speed on my hardware.

I guess its all a matter of taste, like cars! They all can get you from a - b, but all do it differently, some do some things better in this area and others in that area.

Im still tossing up which on to use as my main distro.

[bored2k]

Note:

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[prizrak]

I actually know why it was slow. For some reason it's X was using vmware instead of nv rendering........... Like i said SuSE is weird

[Qrk]

I had the same problem with breezy (using nv)

The moral is most of the problems people bash a distro for can have very easy fixes. SuSE probably just set up a driver that isn't the best for your hardware. That doesn't make it a slow distro.

I had a friend that wouldn't use Ubuntu because he didn't think it had a gui. He asked "650MB and no GUI?" Turns out he just doesn't read error messages (x.org failing to start is a pretty big one.) He went back to gentoo.

[prizrak]

I had the same problem with breezy (using nv)

The moral is most of the problems people bash a distro for can have very easy fixes. SuSE probably just set up a driver that isn't the best for your hardware. That doesn't make it a slow distro.

I had a friend that wouldn't use Ubuntu because he didn't think it had a gui. He asked "650MB and no GUI?" Turns out he just doesn't read error messages (x.org failing to start is a pretty big one.) He went back to gentoo.

HAHA ROFL, the dude is a Gentoo user and couldn't get a GUI to run on Ubuntu. Definetly interesting. SuSE is actually pretty weird as far as it's xorg.conf file was as well, it was mad bloated I had a hard time navigating around. I think it didn't autodetect my hardware all that well cuz it had config options for like every mode known to man. I didn't actually say it was slow that's why I thought it was weird, the apps started up as fast as Ubuntu but afterwards........ Oh well