[OFB Cafe] New Laptop... A Report

[saki]

Donald Spoon wrote:

> I just d/l and run the SUSE 11 "Live Disc", 64-bit version on my new 
> laptop.
> It is not as good as the Kubuntu Live Disc, IMHO.  The desktop looked 
> "flat", i.e. no 3-D effects although I chose the KDE version and it had 
> about the same layout as Kubuntu's.  I think it was using the same 
> version of KDE.  It didn't recognize my wireless chipset nor my built-in 
> ethernet so I don't have an internet connection.  The respective modules 
> refused to load with a "unrecognized symbol" error.  It runs about the 
> same speed as Vista 32-bit here.  
 >
> That is what sent me back to Debian.
> 

I had a similar experience with my attempt at using SuSE 11. It may be
just my imagination but I thihnk SuSE was better before the Novell 
connection.

Been Debian ever since.

Terence