Opensuse 11.2 NEW FEATURES kde version

[JaySean5]

Hi, I am new to opensuse and I am totaly lost in it, wi-fi shows my home wireless, but it doesnt connect and I hav installed the nvidia graphics and activate desktop effects, but still compiz is not working, also m unable to play mp3 songs. Can you please help me? or I have to swtich to windows again,

Thanks in advance

[YouTubbingGeorge]

Another thing is I like the old fashioned program menu when it was just easy and simple to work with not having to deal with all the sliding frames which I think is very unnecessary.

[YouTubbingGeorge]

I can't understand why Open Suse keeps dropping packages from the distribution. When I first tried Open Suse 10.0 it included many goodies to play with though I purchased the the box set. Myself I don't care if a package is out dated no longer being developed or not if it still makes the system more complete. That's better than not having the option at all. Red Hat 9 when they dropped wine for example.Do they really think it's better to leave out packages completely if it's no longer developed?

[ichhabsvergessenmist]

hm... doesn't look very impressive looks more like a half windows half os x with some cool 3d effects when multitasking & switching between windows

[PaceyPimp]

does this come with compiz fusion installed if not how do i install it?

[Akoa0013]

I need help installing a screen recorder for suse 11.2. If you could make a noob proof tutorial that would be great.

[Sakkaes27]

Hi... Can you tell me how to do aero style in open Suse 11.2 Gnome?

[miami4lyfe]

OK SERIOUSLY some one Help i removed windows vista home premium and installed ubuntu that was the biggest fckin mistake of my life i some how re install windows back on with my friends recovery diskfrom his cpu but my graphics card got fcked up in the process i still got a warranty should i get suse 11.2 and remove windows completely or stay with windows with a scky graphics card

[Dreadfultime]

just stay with windows... and get and old ass pentium 4 pc and install linux to play with it... linux mint would be the best choice

[xcon4u]

I tried OpenSuse 11.2. I liked it alot. Great hardware support out of the box. Then I tried Linux Mint and I am never going back... :)

[MrTossum]

Do you use Wine? How is it?

[jhonno123]

does Opensuse support alot of drivers?? like graphic drivers!!

and which is better...KDE OR GNOME?

[anchorschmidt]

It supported mine and I think it would support quite a lot of drivers given that it's one of the major distros. I've tried both KDE and GNOME. GNOME is faster but KDE is better to use because the slab menu in gnome sucks and it kept crashing for me.

[W0Rd0n32sTre3T]

@anchorschmidt Try cardapio as a menu for gnome. Its not themable at the moment though.

[YouTubbingGeorge]

@jhonno123 Did you ever get the driver question figured out? I know I installed 11.2 on a dell inspiron 1525 laptop, everything at first seemed to be working fine. Then the next think I knew the screen went dim and even though I tried increasing the brightness I wouldn't stay. My wireless card didn't work either. I didn't mess with it much though because I couldn't straighten out the brightness issue.

[raptorbsp]

Great my ass. I have a ATI Radeon 9550 256mb/128bits video card and all the graphics is rubbish. In Ubuntu, or Windows works just fine...

[ankitpasi1]

@raptorbsp

Maybe you don't know how to enable 3-d on suse?

[zikalify]

Ubuntu is ace but you might wanna check super OS its the same as ubuntu but with sum useful things included :D

[jlogo10]

openSUSE 11.2 has been rock solid here. Performance has improved considerably from 11.1 and Kwin desktop effects now work great without slowdown on an Intel GMA-based laptop. Hibernation even works well too. The only drawback i've found so far is the slow release of applications that work correctly with 11.2 .

[anchorschmidt]

Yes, I did notice a huge improvement over 11.1. I think that a 1 year release cycle is better than a six month one.

[dhavhe84]

i use openSUSE for about a year and i think is great. i tried Ubuntu first but i just turned into SUSE because Ubuntu doesn't recognize my PSP (lol, yeah that was the only reason), since then i've been exploring the SUSE community and stuff and i think is a very good distro made for begginers and experts. besides you can get involved in some of the Novell appz wich is good if you are going to work with Novell Netware someday, like me.

[anchorschmidt]

@dhavhe84 have you ever had a problem with knetworkmanager with the new one. It keeps breaking the connection. I had to switch to wicd.

[dhavhe84]

no, knetworkmanager works fine, im running 11.2 in a HP zv6203 (an old notebook) and my wifi card is a Broadcom. look at the suse forums surely you will find a solution, or report the bug. ^^

[Ne0nLiteZ]

knetwork is known to be bad

[anchorschmidt]

When it was running I quickly downloaded wicd and now everything is fine :)

[Ne0nLiteZ]

good for you (seriously)

[anchorschmidt]

thanks :)

[brightnight12]

Opensuse is a nice distro. I was disappointed by Ubuntu 9.10 but tried opensuse and am very impressed

[uschschmidt]

I agree, Opensuse and Mandriva give the best KDE ever, though Pardus is quite good as well.

[anchorschmidt]

Hmmm, I tried Pardus and it had a great kde implementation but the repos weren't that good.

[shazam1203]

Looks great!! im gonna download it now.. and dual boot it on my vista laptop....

dont like Mandriva so much.. has too many driver issues on my laptop

[anchorschmidt]

So how do you like your Opensuse experience so far??