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(Unverified)Jun 19th 2008 11:30AM
I don't know.....I would love to switch to openSUSE, but Ubuntu is working just fine for me, even though I've always had problems installing those ati drivers.
What would make me want to change to openSUSE?
What is the BIGGEST difference between the two (when using gnome)?
(Unverified)Jun 19th 2008 11:47AM
Ultimately it does come down to a matter of personal preference, although the two things that irked me about openSUSE after I had used Debian based distributions are essentially taken care of in this release... GNOME (anyway) has a much better YaST interface. In some ways, I like it even better than Synaptic.
Zypper has fixed the rpm issues I had. It is really smooth and very fast compared to apt-get.
The main thing I've always liked more about OpenSUSE than Ubuntu is that OpenSUSE seems better able to accommodate that sometimes I don't want the easiest, most direct way of getting a problem solved. (Bear with me here). There have been times I have needed to "adapt" fixes and how-tos with Ubuntu, and it can get tricky, because it tries a little too hard to protect me from myself. Sometimes I need that protection and other times, it makes my problem that much more difficult to solve.
OpenSUSE is a distro with old-school training wheels, in many ways. If I need a quick, easy fix to an issue, it's there. However, if it doesn't work for whatever reason, and I need to whip out the hammer and chisel to get the issue resolved, OpenSUSE doesn't get in my way.
In this release, they've done a lot to make the distro more welcoming and accessible, and still managed to allow the freedom to easily make any intricate modifications that you might need.