Linked by Leo Spalteholz on Wed 9th Jun 2004 07:59 UTC
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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The author and I both have tried Debian and Suse.
But that is where the similarity ends, because if it is true that I am leaning more and more towards Debian, my view of SuSe is not (yet) quite as negative and, sorry, shallow.
He could have used apt4rpm + synaptic, which are ideal for a Debian user. Suse apt used to be a mockery of Debian apt, but these days I find them almost on a par (to be honest SuSE apt has some features which make it even better than its Debian counterpart) If he had set his sources.list correctly he could have found all he was looking for in no time.
The mouse issue: I have exactly the same mouse and it works fine, first attempt.
About starting Yast when you want to install/uninstall software: no need for that: put in your Panel the applet called: 'Preferences' and at the bottom of the choices you'll find one called:YaST2 modules. So just launch the one you need.
I could go on...
Having said all that, I have been disappointed by SuSe 9.1 when compared to 9.0, which was close to perfection (only minus: rather sluggish): 9.1 is even more sluggish and quite buggy, IMO.Also I find the out of the box look and feel inferior to 9.0. A silly example: what happened to the 'Quick Browser' item in the K menu? It took me about 5 seconds to add it, but I doubt that a new user knows how to do that.