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mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

SusE site has two ISO to DL for 10.3 SuSE 32 and SuSE 64

You choose the interface you want during the installation.

I don't like GNOME so I use KDE.

Gnome is a lot like the old Mac interface. I was never comfortable with it.

KDE is a lot like windows.

However you can actually have both of them installed as well. choose one to start with and install the second one later and then switch between them

Apps for gnome and KDE will work in each other as well.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

Can I have all 3 on SUSE at the same time too?

Also, would it be easy put on all 3 and then get rid of 2 you didn't want after you explored them all?

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Yes,

You don't need to remove them really either.

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

But I'm anal so I always remove anything I'm not using.. Sad

Anyway, how about PClinuxOS, knoppix etc? Tried them? Opinions?

Also, about speed: Are some distros really faster? If so, which ones?

And about desktop environtments: It seems gnome and kbe are both adding fancier features now. If I like that stuff will that be enough or will I want beryl or compiz? Kde claims compiz has better effects but less solid standard operation. True or False?

And lastly, how about speed between desktop environments? I assume the ones with fancy effects enabled will be a little slower, but by how much and is there any noticible difference between say gnome and kde or beryl and compiz? Xfcde really faster than the standard gnome etc environments?

Okay, no more huge lists of questions after this. I promise.

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

Thanks!

(If anyone else wants to chime in feel free too, this became a bit of a 2 person conversation this afternoon. Razz

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kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

Does anyone else see the obviously vast number of different options as a sign that it's hard to know which is the best one to install?

KPRROK

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

Not really.

Nice thing about it is that as long as you set the home folder as a separate partition when you install a new flava of nix you can tell it to use the old home folder and anything you have perviously installed is there waiting for you on the new install.

For your average user it probably is a bit much, but if you have a want for a change then it's worth the adventure.

kprrok · Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC

Weren't a lot of people bitching and moaning about the number of versions of Vista offered? How is it good to have to do hours of research and then hours upon hours of testing to find which flavor of linux is the best for me?

Good lord, give me one OS, let it do what I want, and that's it!!!

Oh wait, that's XP for me!

KPRROK

mrsquirrel · Joined: 13 Dec 2006

There you go.

I'm the sort of man who will happily wear a 3 pound pair of Tesco jeans. Buy six pairs at one time and find that all of them are cut slightly different.

You are obviously more into Marks and Spencers jeans where you know that the cut is always the same.

Just the way some people are.

Fact is though I can chuck my 3 quid jeans out and it's not exactly a dent in my wallet.

Temporary · Joined: 13 Jan 2008

I have a hackintosh.. I love it Smile

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

I eventually installed Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Whilst it's OK, I'm not sure if was worth the considerable hassle it took to get up and running. One big problem is the lack of Active X. If this could be sorted then I would be halfway pleased. So far, I have to say it does feel and look nice, but the difficulty in doing simple things (such as enabling Korean input) is very frustrating.
I have to say that on initial impressions, WinXP is a much better OS all-round, but I am open to any suggestions about Linux.

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005