I have tried openSuSE 12.1. There are pluses and minuses for an Ubuntu user. OpenSuSE has GNOME Shell 3.2 which is available for Ubuntu and KDE 4.7.3, same as Kubuntu. Those are neither pluses nor minuses, but show that your desktop environment should not dictate your move. Rather you need to choose based on community, support, available packages, package management, etc.
OpenSuSE is one of the premier implementations of Btrfs. It is the default file system. KDE is the default desktop, but you can choose GNOME, XFCE or LXDE versions. Btrfs is more complicated to setup, but it has a nice feature to do snapshots and rollbacks. It has something called Snapper to enable this. OpenSusE also features something called Tumbleweed that in effect can change it to a rolling release. OpenSuSE 12.1 has some exciting features, but on the downside is that it is an unfamiliar package management system for Ubuntu users (rpm and Yast). It can be tricky to run for newbies. There is a bit of a learning curve that you should be prepared for. It can become unstable quickly if you do not know what you are doing, in my experience. Support is good, but not as good as Ubuntu. The community is much smaller. You also have smaller repositories and lose PPAs. As with all distros it comes down to choice and what you expect and want. Roy Using Kubuntu 11.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 7 December 2011 21:59, Kari <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually I was thinking the same thing. I haven't looked outside of Ubuntu > in quite a while -- it is time to try something new. OpenSuSE would be fun > to try. > > And I think the group is just quiet. > > ~kari > > > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Ben Chavez <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Did the group got quiet or am I exclude from receiving mail from it? Has >> anyone tried the new OpenSuSE release yet? I think it is the 12.1 release. I >> have been thinking on get away from Ubuntu after 3 years using it so I am >> thinking on an rpm base distro just to learn something different. >> LinuxMint which is ranking up high I think is just second after Ubuntu it >> is actually a derivative from ubuntu so installing that it wont get me much >> far from ubuntu. >> Take care and happy hollidays! >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >> >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >> >> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules >> or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > > > > > -- > > Kari Matthews > o: 630.457.1600 > c: 630.448.0865 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
