openSUSE is looking good

Okay, I'm writing this from openSUSE 11. I wanted to write a quick note to let all my faithful blog readers know how I liked the experience so far. I'm burning DVD images that I downloaded in KTorrent, which is a nice application. K3B is as awesome as everyone says it is.

I installed from a LiveCD, but I had the same problem I had with RC1 on all but one machine. The install image copies to the hard drive and boots, but the user setup doesn't take. I'm logged in as "linux" and the "mvpittman" user I set up isn't available.

The K-Menu makes it really easy to find applications I need though... typing "user" took me to the yast setup for users.

I'm writing this message in KMail, which is also a nice application. In particular, I like it not *sucking* and being *slow* and bloated like Evolution. Also, it has support for Managesieve, which would let me change the filtering rules on my mail server, without logging into a web interface.

Too bad FastMail messes up the inbox hierarchy, and doesn't have managesieve support. I think I'm going to trial TuffMail again.

I'm writing this message in KMail because I didn't find a blogging application, like maybe Kblogger, I think I could deal with that. A template would work just fine to let me get all the extra crap I'd normally select using logjam.

I'm going to install GimP (again, a positive nod to the search at the top of the KDE Slab menu -- "install" got me to the place to add repositories, and search for programs).

Maybe I'll get the printer set up enough to print these DVD labels I downloaded in openSUSE. (Searching for "printer" got me started again with YaST.)

So far, I haven't done anything that I couldn't have done in Fedora, unless that KDE slab/search thing isn't availble in Fedora. So if this printer works all funky, and a DVD install messes up like the Live CD did, then I might just switch back.

Oh yeah... one-click-install pwns you. Going to http://www.opensuse.org/nvidia/ was pretty simple.
However, I had to run nvidia-xconfig to get it to actually take, which wasn't really documented anywhere. I finally figured that out when some attempt to get compositing effects got me to the NVIDIA configuration utility and let me know that the driver wasn't active.

Oh, and once I got that running... The tiny fonts that I really didn't mind so much... they just sprung to life. And then there's the CCSM goodness... "Hollywood got nothing" indeed. I'm liking this alot... I'm going to move on to re-installing from the 64-bit DVD and see how that goes.