Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Oct 2007 20:13 UTC, submitted by luna6
A review of OpenSUSE 10.3, which concludes: "While openSUSE's efforts to simplify Linux or Window-fy Linux can be commended, the inconsistency in their implementation is its downfall. Opening applications quickly becomes a chore with the excessive amount of clicks needed to find the application you want. The application browser loads slowly, looks cluttered, and uses icons that are too large. Yast has been improved but still feels slow."
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2006-02-12
your installation takes so long because you downloaded the CD version and most of the packages have to be downloaded rather than copied from the local media. Yes the installer does not specifically say that it's downloading unless you go in the details view but installation goes a lot faster if you use DVD. As far as the article goes yast is quite fast on a 64 bit machine and this is actually one of the few 64 bit distros that is actually faster than the 32 bit counterpart. Very nicely done! The start menu becomes quite a drag after a while. Yes in KDE you have an integrated start menu rather than a window with all the apps in it but it's still a little bit slower than the standard way of doing things with a tree like menu and no transition effects. And searching for applications every time you want to open them is really stupid and slow. But you can customize the desktop to your liking and create a more usable bar with shortcuts. I only wish it was possible to switch back to *classic view* just like you can in windows.
All the rest of the gripes of the original article a total BS. Suse is the most polished free linux distro there is and 10.3 is the best work that I have seen. It installs fonts by default includes flash and java by default although there are some quirks that you have to know. For example if you do not agree with the licensing agreement of java 1.5 then it goes to 1.6 rather than asking you which one you want first. Yes you can go in the advanced installation mode and manually select but why do you have a regular mode then? But like I said those are only quirks and not shortcomings.