Hi! I use gentoo on my desktop (P4, 2 Gb RAM) and openSuSe on laptop (Lenovo x200s). They both work perfectly well, especially when you precisely know what you are expecting from OS )) Regarding your questions:
About DE: I've tried to use Enlightenment with SuSe, and worked very well (only little changes with networking). Applications: I have texlive, pdftk, sipp and ns-2 working perfectly on both systems. General applications like LibreOffice, Gimp, browser works fine too. The only thin is really annoying in openSuSe is /usr/lib/tracker-* which loads CPU by 90% while searching for media files, etc.. I recommend to disable it - I haven't found anything useful by using this application. Hope this helps you. P.S. Sorry it there were some mistakes - English isn't my native language. On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:41 PM, LinuxIsOne <linuxis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Does one have the experience for the following: > > gentoo vs openSUSE > > for ease of use, better navigation, applications working perfectly > without any crash(es), better up gradations, smooth working, > etc..etc... > > Best Regards. > > -- С уважением, Черноиванов Андрей