I'm sure everyone is sick of reading reviews of Suse 9.1 by now but perhaps this one is a little different. This is not an ordinary review in the sense that I don't provide lots of colourful screenshots, or ramble on endlessly about the included software versions and other trivial things. Written from the point of view of a Debian user trying to switch to an "easier" distribution, I concentrated on how Suse stacks up compared to some of the traditional Debian strengths.
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I totally agree with you! I'm running Debian on a PC and Mandrake on my Dell laptop. This is the second time i give a chance to Suse on my laptop (9.0 and now 9.1), and one conclusion : Suse sucks for the basic task you expect it to accomplish! My external PS2 mouse never worked well, the
XFree86 config file was always crappy when generated by Sax. DVD protected multimedia etc.
On the other hand Mandrake has always worked and detected every hardware flawlessly on my laptop and just works fine!
So for me, Mandrake is a far better choice for userfriendly-newbie linux use!!!
I totally agree with you! I'm running Debian on a PC and Mandrake on my Dell laptop. This is the second time i give a chance to Suse on my laptop (9.0 and now 9.1), and one conclusion : Suse sucks for the basic task you expect it to accomplish! My external PS2 mouse never worked well, the
XFree86 config file was always crappy when generated by Sax. DVD protected multimedia etc.
On the other hand Mandrake has always worked and detected every hardware flawlessly on my laptop and just works fine!
So for me, Mandrake is a far better choice for userfriendly-newbie linux use!!!