Re: SuSE vs Ubuntuu

Dirk Roos wrote:


John Howell schreef:

Ubuntu on laptop: Live version running with no problems at all, all
hardware detected and working OK. Much smaller selection of software.
They seem to have tried to distill the suite to their "Best of Breed"
list.

Probably due to the fact that it is a live cd? If I compare SUSE to an
Ubuntu live cd i'd choose SUSE, since it presents most software in my
native (non-english) language, the Ubuntu live cd doesn't. So that is a
bad comparison.
I don't think they have KOffice, KMail, K-anything on the ubuntu distro as
they are all those dreadfully complicated and over featured KDE apps 8).
IMHO this misses out a huge range of very functional apps, but does keep it
simple for someone new to computers, not just Linux.

Overall, I think Ubuntu is a better "Beginner Linux" but then Suse is OK
if you just leave it at the defaults too.
I installed SUSE 9.3 as a complete linux dummy and immediatly
customized everything I needed (no books, just Google and usenet)(and I
used to be die hard ms-user). My kids 7, 8, 10, 13 years old are 100%
SUSE Linux-users. So I guess it's bad to imply that SUSE should be used
by the more experienced users.
Not that you have to be an experienced user, but to make sense of the wealth
of choice means that some knowledge and background information on these
apps do makes it easier.
For simplicity for new users to any OS it pays to keep the choices minmal.
Same can be said for Windows though I guess. How many people just use IE and
Outlook Express, just because that is the only mail app and browser Windows
shipped with? Makes it nice and easy for new users. Of course the first
thing I do on any of my Windows installs is to get Thunderbird and Firefox
8)

For a more advanced user, I think Suse has more flexibility as you can
use RPMs, apt sources, or compile from source. Yast rocks for setting up
system services quickly.
I agree:-)

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