[danbuter]

I've been using Ubuntu for about a year. It's a nice distro, but it just seems to get buggier and buggier. I really felt that Gutsy was worse than Feisty, especially with stuff like Suspend being broken when it worked fine before. (I think the new Intel drivers are not so hot and are the root of the problem). Anyways, I had tried out KDE before on Kubuntu Feisty, and it was pretty awful. I recently gave OpenSUSE a shot, and I really like it. The RPM stuff is a little different, but the basic setup just seems better to me. I also like that /home is a separate partition by default. I'm kinda surprised Ubuntu doesn't do this. Anyways, after a couple days using the LiveCD (which had one problem that I fixed), I finally just wiped Ubuntu and installed OpenSUSE. It seems much more stable, and everything works better than it did before. It is a bit slow, but nothing earth-shattering. I will be posting one help thing for it, but other than that, everything has been working great.

[daark.child]

I prefer openSUSE to Ubuntu as well (I think Ubuntu is overhyped and there are plenty of better distros out there). Hope you enjoy using openSUSE.

[usamamuneeb]

I really felt that Gutsy was worse than Feisty

Absolutely correct!

[questio verum]

Which desktop did you go with? I was window-shopping distros this afternoon and I see that compared to Ubuntu, OpenSUSE has about 1/5th the number of files in it's repositories. Not that that necessarily means anything, but have you had to forego any of your favorite progs in the switch? How does OpenSUSE compare to Ubuntu in terms of speed? Anything else you'd care to mention to someone considering a change?
THX!

qv

[daark.child]

I don't think you'd lose out on your favourite apps. openSUSE has thousands of packages in their official and community repositories, so you have access to more or less the same packages as those on Ubuntu. Traditionally SUSE has had large package repositories. I remember when I first used SUSE in the 7.x era the release was on 7 discs.

[usamamuneeb]

How does OpenSUSE compare to Ubuntu in terms of speed?

None better. If you desire speed then what keeps you from using CRUX?

[questio verum]

I d/l'ed & burnt the dvd image last night. Everything looked great during install, then grub cratered upon reboot. I tried fixing it through the menu on the dvd, but after a half-dozen tries, it was still broken. I could have repaired it using parted magic but I was tired so I just reinstalled Ubuntu and called it a night.

I do like the options available at install though. I'll go back later today, and get the the cd image. Does the live cd allow install too?


qv

[questio verum]

Originally Posted by usamamuneeb

None better. If you desire speed then what keeps you from using CRUX?

Good question.... I probably will at some point future. For the short-term I just want a gnome-centric distro that will run on my creaky old 1Ghz P3 w/o too many hiccups.

qv

[stinkoman]

well i use slackware, and its 5-6 times faster than windows, but im comparing it to windows because i havent used many other distros.

[danbuter]

It seems slightly slower than Ubuntu, but I think that is a KDE vs Gnome thing. All the programs I use are here. My only real issue is getting used to KDE, as I knew where everything on Gnome was but wanted to give this WM a whirl. And my laptop only has 500 Meg of RAM with no video card RAM, and is working well, so 1 GB should be great.