Comments on: openSUSE 12.1: All Green!

By: Lisias

Lisias — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:54:51 +0000

I have a i7 notebook that works fine under 11.4 (except by the NVIDIA drivers, that crashes shamelessly on Gnome – but that is NVIDIA’s fault – on every other machine that does not use a NVIDIA chip, everything worked fine)

By: Lisias

Lisias — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:51:44 +0000

My God, Gnome 3 is unusable!

Sometimes, we must hold on the mouse’s button while selecting something to be activated on button’s release. Sometimes, we need to click. Even worst, there’s times where just a double click do the job.

There is any chance to porting Gnome 2 to OpenSUSE 12 series?

Until there, I think I will just hold on on OpenSUSE 11.4 while I can. I like Yast2 and OpenSUSE very much, but not that much to cope with Gnome (and, definitively, I would prefer switching distro to use KDE)

I can’t even change the font color of the Shell’s Clock, by God’s sake! (Changing Theme on the Advanced Settings? Seriously?)

By: Lisias

Lisias — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:36:20 +0000

Ubuntu is not that better. Unity sucks almost much as Gnome 3.

If I never had used Gnome 2 from OpenSUSE 11.4, *maybe* I could use it. But now?

I would go to Debian instead.

By: sisto

sisto — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:38:45 +0000

Some happy people here, and some angry people.
I have had good luck with 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 12.1, but on a slightly too old machine there are some hang problems with 12.1 maybe due to NVIDIA linuxdrivers. I was recommended SuSE by the Linux Communication and has not regretted since. I still use suse 7.3 on my moneymaking production machine from 2000. And in this moment I am wroting on a Desktop SLED10_SP3.

It seems like everything depend upon hardware drivers, graphic cards and processors. AMD has definately been the best choice for my linuxes. Trouble with Centrino, with hangs independent of any Suse version. The “last” Intel I got to work properly is Pentium III on the 2000 machine, and on that machine both 7.3 and SLED10SP3 is working fine, and I think that Intel is too eager for the Microsoft products, quite natural,though, but not right.

By: Markus

Markus — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:00:33 +0000

By: masserati

masserati — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:35:29 +0000

While Windows is becoming worse and worse it’s not the case in Linux. It’s not surprising people leave Windows behind when it consumes a lot of RAM for some MS only known services. Not everyone knows Windows 7 is the same mess as Vista with the same kernel and with some bug fixes. It has very old usb support (from windows xp era!) and slow file system that fragments like hell. Windows era is going to end. It lost in smartphones, enterprise (people are migrating to Linux), server market and now it’s time for desktops. Windows 8 with its crappy interface and crappy legcacy kernel will make things even worse. Such old technology from windows xp era must simply die.

By: Seb

Seb — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:52:42 +0000

Well… I tried to launch openSuse 12.1 live CD, and it just told me there was an error with consoles tty3/tty4 and that it would reboot in 120 seconds.
Can’t say it makes a great impression. I will definitely wait for the next versions as 11.3 and 11.4 worked ok.

By: jlambrec

jlambrec — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:37:12 +0000

I had 11.4 running fine on two different computers running with Intel Core Quad processors (Stryker and Biostar motherboards).
With 12.1, I have experienced some hangs on the Biostar based machine despite trying to update to the latest revs from download.opensuse.org/repositories/.
Xen could not connect to Dom-0 until updated to the latest rev from the Virtualization repository (but still no sound on the virtual machine other than Dom-0).
In a nutshell, 12.1 is improving with the updates…

By: cranky_gnome_3_user

cranky_gnome_3_user — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:10:11 +0000

sorry for coming back..

but I haven’t release my anger yet ..

I HATE 12.1 ___________________ you damm gnome 3 POS.

yes, it sounds like a kid rant, but you guys let me down..

By: cranky_gnome_3_user

cranky_gnome_3_user — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:07:24 +0000

Holy cow after after being happy with opensuse for years! I can’t stress how much I *hate* the new desktop. I repeat *hate*

1) contra- productive
2) damm you for no giving the chance to roll-back as other distros to gnome-’classic’ 2 look-alike/ fallback what your ever you want to call it .
3) _unstable_
4) hello………… C O M P I Z ……………………..

Your former user, and former opensuse preacher .