Comments on: Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 11.1: The Latest GNOME Desktop

By: Soorya Raj

Soorya Raj — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:11:07 +0000

I am going to download openSUSE 11.1′s GNOME version as KDE 4.2 is very slow on my computer. I came to know that openSUSE GNOME is more attractive and stable than Ubuntu 8.10. Great Job!

By: ttyX

ttyX — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:55:55 +0000

Only thing I dislike in the gnome edition is the opensuse custom menu and other than that its just fine ;)

By: Franklin

Franklin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:29:26 +0000

Banshee in the openSUSE 11.1 live CD does not allow access to network drives. I have a NAS and another machine that is automatically picked up by Nautilus as long as the network connection has already been first established, but Banshee does not have this capability.

Media > Import Media
Then select either Local Files or Local Folders.
Nowhere does it allowing selecting a networked machine.

By: John J

John J — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:20:11 +0000

I have tried both KDE and Gnome recently. I find that Gnome is very simple to use but lacks options for tweakers. KDE wasn’t stable in 4.0.x versions but 4.1.3 that is in opensuse 11.1 is stable. I like KDE because it runs better than Gnome on my machine and I also think KDE looks better. I think Gnome is good for servers or people who don’t want to change/tweak the desktop enviroment too much. I found that I quickley outgrew Gnome…

My 50 cents

By: Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy (kdupuy9)

Kevin "Yeaux" Dupuy (kdupuy9) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:34:04 +0000

That’s odd. It’s working fine on my openSUSE 11.1 installation…

By: cranstd

cranstd — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:06:18 +0000

“Banshee also now supports Internet Radio. The application comes pre-installed with dozens of stations already, ranging from all spectrums of music to talk.”

I believe this statement to be in error. After I performed a clean install of openSUSE 11.1, there were no radio stations pre-installed in banshee. YMMV.

By: Necrolin

Necrolin — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:07:47 +0000

I used to like KDE. That was in the year 2000. Since then KDE has been as stable as Charles Manson on crack. Crashes, segmentation faults, instability. No thanks. I recently tried KDE again. Every time I come back I feel disappointed.

Gnome is user friendly, clean, and has the right mix of features to make it useful and efficient. I love it. =)

By: embril

embril — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 06:45:11 +0000

I disagree with anyone who says that KDE is slower than Gnome. And I’m not buying the “well on your hardware maybe, but not on mine” argument, either. I’ve extensively used OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Slackware, Fedora, FreeBSD, Debian and its been my consistent experience that KDE is faster than Gnome on both of my computers – one having about twice the hardware performance specs as the other. Gnome is consistently more sluggish on every system I’ve tried in which both desktops were available. I believe KDE is far more attractive and polished than Gnome. With the beautiful KDE4 improving with leaps and bounds daily, stabilizing and a rapidly growing list of apps being created for it by a very active and growing developer network, KDE is my choice, hands down. The only reason I’d even consider using Gnome at the moment is that KDE4 still still needs to reach feature parity with KDE3.5 and stabilize a little more before its ready to completely replace KDE3.5. At that point, it’ll be KDE4 all the way. A lot of distros try to push Gnome as the primary desktop with a lot of hype for some reason, but the rhetoric just doesn’t match the reality. Quite simply, KDE is more integrated, polished, attractive, useful and powerful than Gnome. Gnome makes for a better desktop than Windows, but compared to KDE, it still seems clunky and unattractive.

By: Maxime

Maxime — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:45:30 +0000

Indeed! The only interesting feature is…the girl. Since brief I am discovering the Xfce Desktop and that one is quite interesting. I used to start, like one of the entries above, with KDE though it always got muddled up in the end and in consequence opted for GNOME. GNOME is in facto more ‘beautiful’ than KDE. OpenSuse is nice however also quite heavy on the system. And I never got my bl…y Broadcom wireless working.
After having used Ubuntu8.10 for awhile, solely because everything indeed works straight out of the box, I went today back to Fedora. Fedora 10 is a cracker and I managed to get everything working like with Ubuntu. Fedora gives one the Red Hat feel and in due logic respect the GNOME Desktop comes in view. If anyone could explain to me in plain English how to get the Broadcom wireless working with OpenSuse I may give the new edition a go otherwise I stick with Fedora. Too many distros out there anyway, if you ask me. Have not said that, no-one was asking my opinion anyway thus I stop here.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:00:04 +0000

I agree with the criticism that Gnome and really all of the the other desktops including Windows are not pushing the envelope when it comes to desktop innovation but my preference would have to be Gnome for Linux, for me KDE looks looks like it was designed for a child and is trying to hard to be interesting. I can’t talk technically about which one is better but from a users perspective I much prefer the way Gnome looks, feels and acts. Just my 2 cents :)