One of the things I went to great pains to document was just how weird my X30 was. You could make the case that my install may have been bad because the X30 is hardly stock. On the other hand, Mint had no problems with it. Again, you just can't test everything, and Mint is a consumer level Linux while openSUSE 10.2 is in a way the next version of SLED. Since IBM (Lenovo) preinstalled SLED on Thinkpads, you would think it would have gone better, but again, there is the mixed genetics of the machine I used.
Just because I had trouble is hardly what everyone will have, and if the other comment plus yours is a yardstick, our sample group has one bad install in 11. With a sample group of three, we are hardly at statistical relevancy either. I know plenty of OS's that can't do that well though.
Oddly, I had more luck with 10.1 than 10.0 when I did those two openSUSE's "back in the day", so there is another sign that mileage really varies in experiences like this. My 10.1 install was on an HP NX5000, and it just dropped in easy as could be.
At the end of the 10.2 install, I had everything working, even the Wifi. It performed OK: about the same as Ubuntu 6.10, at least from a subjective point of view. I had even disabled the SLAB stuff, and had it looking like Gnome again. I never got around to the KDE test though.
The whole problem was, now that it was working as an OS, half the stuff I do with a *personal* system was still broken. I did not hunt up the extra package repositories I needed to get everything working, although I knew they were out there someplace. Thanks for their names though: I am not done with 10.2 yet. I am just done with it on my X30.
I might have hunted them up, but I had the Linux Mint disk sitting right there on my desk, so I decided to give it a whirl. For a personal computer, doing personal things, it just worked. I was impressed. But I am pretty sure I could have made openSUSE 10.2 into the same thing, and that at the end of the day it would have been fast, stable, and an overall good experience.
Just because I had trouble is hardly what everyone will have, and if the other comment plus yours is a yardstick, our sample group has one bad install in 11. With a sample group of three, we are hardly at statistical relevancy either. I know plenty of OS's that can't do that well though.
Oddly, I had more luck with 10.1 than 10.0 when I did those two openSUSE's "back in the day", so there is another sign that mileage really varies in experiences like this. My 10.1 install was on an HP NX5000, and it just dropped in easy as could be.
At the end of the 10.2 install, I had everything working, even the Wifi. It performed OK: about the same as Ubuntu 6.10, at least from a subjective point of view. I had even disabled the SLAB stuff, and had it looking like Gnome again. I never got around to the KDE test though.
The whole problem was, now that it was working as an OS, half the stuff I do with a *personal* system was still broken. I did not hunt up the extra package repositories I needed to get everything working, although I knew they were out there someplace. Thanks for their names though: I am not done with 10.2 yet. I am just done with it on my X30.
I might have hunted them up, but I had the Linux Mint disk sitting right there on my desk, so I decided to give it a whirl. For a personal computer, doing personal things, it just worked. I was impressed. But I am pretty sure I could have made openSUSE 10.2 into the same thing, and that at the end of the day it would have been fast, stable, and an overall good experience.
I just don't have enough test systems.