Reading Planet SUSE I found link to article
Switching from Ubuntu to OpenSuse .
How many people annoyed with bugs in distro that they used for a while finally give up and go elsewhere ?
I know that is not many, as it involves some time to learn new one, but I know one that moved in opposite direction and few more that have some sort of plan B that include some other distro as an option.
I can tell you from what I know, that switching takes few months to install the same software, learn config locations, config files, package manager commands and functionality and other specific things.
ReplyDeleteI moved from Knoppix to Fedora and then to openSUSE. I had some affairs with Ubuntu but they didn't take much time.
Ubuntu has old unupdated packages and community is very lazy and not too smart/technical.
The geniuses at the apple store turned me on to Linux. I got and installed Red Hat 6 and I was off, then came 7 and eventually they went Enterprise.
ReplyDeleteI even paid their subscription and stuck with it for most of the first year.
But I discovered a Local Users Group, attended a few meetings and was totally hooked. I tried and liked Mandrake (now Mandriva) and then discovered SuSE 7?.
I have tried Kubuntu a couple of times and I like it a lot! (I think the World of Debian and their true Linux purist ways).
I still own and use the heck out of my Macs (OSX rocks!!) But on my laptop PC's I use Linux.
Currently running OpenSuse 11.1. I am a fan of Novell and like what they have done with SuSE. YES, it has a couple of BUGS that drive me up a wall sometimes, (that is when I go to Kubuntu) I am still learning and will do so till I die.
Some of us Linux geeks tend to be loners, at least that is the way I have learned it. But am happy when I come across others that share the passion and interest. I will always do what I can to help their learning cause!.
Thanks so much for your post!
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