As I mentioned in my previous post, I've given openSUSE 11.4 a fairly thorough trial run. I played with the live CD first and liked the overall look and feel, plus the novelty of using KDE. As a long-term Ubuntu user, there were quite a few things that baffled me. Two stand out as particularly annoying: The first is the fact that I can't get my microphone working, despite spending hours poking around the sound settings and trying to find an answer on the forums. The second, I did resolve eventually. This was the fact that although I imported my Thunderbird address book into Kontact, whenever I started anew email message, the address field refused to autocomplete and seemed to have no connection to the address book at all. The fix was eventually given to me by someone on the KDE forum. It was rather obscure and involved clicking a button which had no name on it (?), but sorted the problem immediately.
Having said all that, my overall impression is that openSUSE is pretty impressive and significantly more sophisticated than Ubuntu. So much so, that I've now installed it as my main distro. All in all, I'd give it four out of five stars. And if I can figure out why my mike won't work, I might make that five stars. _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
