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seaplanebase: Yes, people it's time to wake up.
After having tried many many distributions over the last 6 years, it was openSuse 10.2 where I settled even after testing more.

What with setting up multi-media and virtual machines on all the various distros and looking for solutions and answers on them, openSuse from a newbie stand point is less complicated and more friendly. The support is less esoteric, you're not told over and over again to RTFM the answers are definitely less ambiguous and the group (users) are more helpful.

One has to consider other factors when choosing a "new" operating system beyond how it looks and behaves, what if you have a problem, how easy is it to find answers, do you have to pay for support do you have a choice. I'm sure if anyone reading this, thinks back a couple of years working with less than friendly installations of Debian or Red Hat and looking for answers only finding the remarks - read, read , read as the solution to the question being asked. That used to be the solution to any problem encountered in say 1984 when people made a lot of money in the mystique of computers.

Hopefully we've moved on and have become less aloof about what we know, even in the early days my small business made more by informing my customers so THEY wanted more and appreciated not being kept in the dark.

I prefer to help people rather than baffle them, it's harder on the ego but infinitely more satisfying and even a company that I cursed in the early days, Novel seems to be on the right track and Suse is a good start.

P.S. For anyone that knows, and anyone that sweat by "glass" check out Ruby, talk about cool.; Posted by: gyulad@... Posted on: 07/06/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use