On Wednesday 02 March 2005 02:35, Joshua Bryan wrote:
> Hello there... I am new to your LUG and am going to be switching to
> linux really soon... I have always been a fan of linux just had not had
> enough of the crap from M$ to switch... I have a couple of questions I
> was hoping that you could help with...
>
> First I am really leaning twords using SuSE 9.2 for my distro... There
> are the pro's and Con's for it, but it comes as close to meeting my
> needs as possible I think... I am really looking for a distro that works
> really well with multimedia as that is like a staple for me. I know that
> SuSE does not support DVD playback from the box but it seems easier to
> add that then try and get my wireless card to work with Fedora Core 3.
> Anyway back to my first question has anyone here used SuSE 9.2 w/
> wireless and had any major issue's besides the general fuss?
>
> Second I was looking at the DVD for SuSE 9.2 and the fact that it only
> installs the min software package! Can you add other things like the c
> compiler and all the other several gigs worth of stuff directly from the
> CD? A second part to my second question would be that SuSE calls the 9.2
> an Evaluation copy... Is that the same as MicroSuck's Evaluation
> Definition? Meaning does it only work for a curtain amount of time
> before requiring registration... Do they limit the update with "YOU" to
> only people who buy the software stuff like that?? Those are the kind of
> things that turned me away from mandrake... was how commercial it was...
>
> Third and Final question (For now)... I have never quite understood the
> need for different desktop managers such as KDE and gnome... Do you have
> to pick one and then can only use apps that are for that desktop
> manager? What I mean is if I use KDE as my desktop manager and then want
> to use gaim will it work? If so is all you are choosing the manager for
> is the look and feel of the system?
>
> Thanks much for your time in advance and look forward to hearing from
> whoever answers this... hopfully multiple people w00t!
>
> ~wd0mkr
> ---------------------------------------------------
I'm still something of a noob myself, but I've been using SUsE 9.0 on my HP
Pavilion laptop and an AMD homebuilt for over a year. I bought my copy from
Fry's for $35 and YOU has always worked for me. It's my understanding that if
you want phone and e-mail tech support, you have to buy, but the updates work
with any distro. Mplayer will run DVD and wmv files on Linspire, but last
time I checked it hasn't been ported to SUsE yet. You can load pretty much
whatever other packages you want, and most Gnome and KDE apps will run under
either desktop manager. The difference between Gnome and KDE is pretty much a
matter of asthetics, and my distro came with several Gnome apps.
Not being a computer whiz, the learning curve has been pretty steep for me,
but I haven't regretted dumping windows since I made the switch. SUsE does
everything I want it to do, and I am very impressed with the stability of the
OS, which is actually part of my problem. If it doesn't break, how am I ever
going to learn how to fix it?
Stu
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