Just put Suse on my Laptop, got some questions.

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Is there an easy way of installing programs? The only way I have found is from opensuse site list or yast list. If I download I can't figure out how to make it work.

If you manage to lose your GUI what is the command to get it back?

How do you stop the password request for everything?

What is the use of the little display thing on the task bar that lets you flip the screen?

How is it possible that I can have every program I had on vista(basically) yet still have almost my entire drive empty...... <-- this one is a joke.


If your wondering I have a Lenovo z61m that had vista on it. I upgraded to 2gb of ram and added a 2gb card for ready boost. Know that that gets you ? more HD thrashing and constant full use of all memory. I blame the HD thrashing on my drives death, first HD I have ever had go bad on me. I have a hard drive that is 10 years old that works like new still....

Anyways new to Linux and loving it on my laptop. Thinking about putting it on the wifes desktop and mine as well. I think it is a safe bet that XP will be the last Microsoft OS I use.

Yast would be the only one I know of in SUSE. You're probably better off using a Debian-derived distro like Ubuntu, Mepis, or Linux Mint, since there are loads of packages precompiled for all of them.


startx

But if you lose the GUI there are probably problems that startx won't fix.


By running as root all the time, but that's a bad idea.


Multiple desktops. You can have some stuff on one desktop, then switch to another desktop and have different things running there. Reduces clutter if you have a lot of windows open, and it can help keep them organized.


Because Vista sucks. But so does SUSE.

I have used openSuse for years. It works fine.

That is not a valid comparison.





YaST is by far the easiest method by which to install packages. The items are, for the most part, pre-compiled and ready to go.

As for installing packages or programs you download from third-party sites. That will depend on the nature of said packages or programs.

Perhaps if you could provide some more details?





That is mostly a function of using YaST. It will ask you for a password before you use it. Consider it a security feature.





Welcome to the Land of the Penguin.

That is an important part of the security of linux.



Say you have some work in progress on one. You can have your music player on another, and web browser on still another. You can probably have 16 or more.

I find it less useful as I have a huge display.



But a good question. You can have all that stuff because programs do not need to install and store redundant libraries. Again, this ties in with the security, stability and also efficiency of linux.



I love to hear those words.

Last edited by Fuzzy on 11 Jun 2009, 1:51 am, edited 1 time in total.

OpenSUSE with KDE4 felt a heck of a lot like Vista when I tried it.

I tried openSuse KDE frist while waiting for my new HD. It ran better than Vista which doesn't mean anything... but I didn't like the setup. So I tried Gnome and found I like that much more at this point.

I may give Ubuntu a try next.... its not like Linux takes as long as Windows to install

I am really enjoying all the little games that can be downloaded. My wife loves to play games like those and Freecell can only last for so long.

^OpenSUSE with GNOME is probably better- I must admit I have never given OpenSUSE's GNOME a chance, since I've always perceived it as a KDE-centric distro. It is quite likely the problems I had with OpenSUSE were more because of KDE suckiness than SUSE suckiness.

Ubuntu supports hundreds of desktops- I know you can have at the very least a 16x16 grid, perhaps even more. Feel like checking? I don't really want to boot into Ubuntu now. Fedora seems limited to only 36 desktops.

15x15 is the Ubuntu max. Though it may be possible to exceed that, it is the default. At that point the mini windows on the panel are only a few pixels. So 225.