What about OpenSuse for home use?
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Thanks; that was useful... I have used various distros so far, there are pros and cons of all... I liked the freedom Fedora gave, but was to fragile.. Ubuntu is stable and nice, but is for novice users only I would say... no freedom as in changing configuration, no control of many parts of the UI. Let's see what does OpenSuse gives...
Regards, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji http://jwalantsoneji.com[^]
Just as a thought, if your computer can handle a virtual machine, you might want to look into those as well. I use Oracle's VirtualBox with a couple virtual machines to check out. I have an OpenSuse virtual machine that also runs Mono to experiment with.
Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote:
used various distros so far, there are pros and cons of all...
Yes, I can relate to that as well :-D
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Thanks; that was useful... I have used various distros so far, there are pros and cons of all... I liked the freedom Fedora gave, but was to fragile.. Ubuntu is stable and nice, but is for novice users only I would say... no freedom as in changing configuration, no control of many parts of the UI. Let's see what does OpenSuse gives...
Regards, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji http://jwalantsoneji.com[^]
Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote:
no freedom as in changing configuration, no control of many parts of the UI.
:doh: huh? ...you do have the freedom to change those things... not sure exactly how easy you want it but I'm using Ubuntu and it's customised to how I want it (dumped Unity).
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I just do some internet surfing, social networking on my laptop. Right now I am using Ubuntu 64bit. What would you say about OpenSuse?
Regards, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji http://jwalantsoneji.com[^]
I have been using OpenSUSE as my Desktop-OS for quite some time, as a replacement for Windows. It was the only distro that correctly recognized all hardware. Quite simple to install, got Wine and Mono on there. Lot's of configuration options in the UI, but most examples on the internet will use the shell to change those.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss:
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Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji wrote:
no freedom as in changing configuration, no control of many parts of the UI.
:doh: huh? ...you do have the freedom to change those things... not sure exactly how easy you want it but I'm using Ubuntu and it's customised to how I want it (dumped Unity).
that's exactly what I was talking about... I could not find UI configuration editor which disable/change Unity.
Regards, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji http://jwalantsoneji.com[^]
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I just do some internet surfing, social networking on my laptop. Right now I am using Ubuntu 64bit. What would you say about OpenSuse?
Regards, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji http://jwalantsoneji.com[^]
An important question to ask is: is your hardware supported by the Linux you want to use? And typically you'll find that out only by installing that Linux on your computer... Of course, you can use a boot manager and share a data partition. But at some installation a Linux might report a problem when updating the boot manager ("write protected")... Eventually I installed Windows, getting rid of those problems.
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that's exactly what I was talking about... I could not find UI configuration editor which disable/change Unity.
Regards, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji http://jwalantsoneji.com[^]
You probably didn't look hard enough... there are Unity tweak tools, I believe the newest Ubuntu release has one that comes with it (no need to install it) but previous versions didn't, so you had to install it or you could edit the associated files through the terminal. To install it all you really have to do is look for the tools in their software center (or whatever it's currently called) which is very user friendly. If you don't want to use Unity at all, you just have to install an alternate "interface shell", I use mostly Gnome classic (version 2.x) but Gnome 3 is not bad. If you deal with a lot of graphics in your applications (as I do) Gnome classic is probably your best choice as it doesn't hog any resources at all.
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You probably didn't look hard enough... there are Unity tweak tools, I believe the newest Ubuntu release has one that comes with it (no need to install it) but previous versions didn't, so you had to install it or you could edit the associated files through the terminal. To install it all you really have to do is look for the tools in their software center (or whatever it's currently called) which is very user friendly. If you don't want to use Unity at all, you just have to install an alternate "interface shell", I use mostly Gnome classic (version 2.x) but Gnome 3 is not bad. If you deal with a lot of graphics in your applications (as I do) Gnome classic is probably your best choice as it doesn't hog any resources at all.
Thanks.. that was really very much insightful..
Albert Holguin wrote:
You probably didn't look hard enough
And this is what I was talking about that its not a single step to change Unity... The Ubuntu Settings page is so small; hides most of the changes a non-novice user will be looking for...
Albert Holguin wrote:
install an alternate "interface shell"
Let me try this one... thanks..
Regards, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji http://jwalantsoneji.com[^]
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An important question to ask is: is your hardware supported by the Linux you want to use? And typically you'll find that out only by installing that Linux on your computer... Of course, you can use a boot manager and share a data partition. But at some installation a Linux might report a problem when updating the boot manager ("write protected")... Eventually I installed Windows, getting rid of those problems.
Bernhard Hiller wrote:
some installation a Linux might report a problem when updating the boot manager ("write protected")
Never encountered a one of this kind... I have used RedHat, Ubuntu, Live Mint, Fedora, Debian and couple of others till date...
Regards, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji http://jwalantsoneji.com[^]
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Bernhard Hiller wrote:
some installation a Linux might report a problem when updating the boot manager ("write protected")
Never encountered a one of this kind... I have used RedHat, Ubuntu, Live Mint, Fedora, Debian and couple of others till date...
Regards, Jwalant Natvarlal Soneji http://jwalantsoneji.com[^]
I do not remember which one it was with the write protected error. The different distros used different versions of the boot manager and were not able to update it correctly in all cases - I had to manually edit afterwards several times. I tested Ubuntu 10 and 11, OpenSuse, Suse Server, Suse Desktop, and CentOS; all 64 bit.
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It does just as fine as any other Linux distro...
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham