__/ [ casioculture@xxxxxxxxx ] on Sunday 30 July 2006 03:00 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [ casioculture@xxxxxxxxx ] on Saturday 29 July 2006 18:20 \__
>>
>> > Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> >
>> >> I liked Human too (back when I was using Ubuntu, that is).
>> >
>> >
>> > What are you using now and why?
>>
>> I use SUSE because the Department had it installed on my machine in 2003
>> and I never found a reason to switch away. I recently pondered a switch to
>> Kubuntu though. At home I run SUSE as well because the computer came
>> preinstalled with it (or with the CD's delivered in the box). As for
>> Ubuntu, I just had to try it. At the time, I didn't have other distros
>> readily available to install, so I decided to go with GNOME. That was at
>> work. I just needed to SSH to the University, essentially making that a
>> thin client. I also have experience with Mandrake, Mandriva, and Red Hat.
>> I frequently use Fedora on remote computing clusters. SUSE is second to
>> none.
>>
> What do you like about suse over ubuntu? I installed opensuse 10.1,
> didn't like it much, went back to ubuntu.
I guess I quite delibarely not say this explicitly. My choice of SUSE was a
matter of convenience. It was just there; so, I did not necessarily choose
it because it was best by some judgment I had made (Ubuntu was not yet
widely known at the time) . But there is a merit to uniformity and change of
distrobution often comes with change in prepackages applications, Web sites,
on-line communities, knowledge (e.g. knowing your way around YaST2) and so
forth. There is nothing wrong with Ubuntu. I just happen to be comfortable
with SUSE and the OpenSuSE community. I also need many features in KDE,
whereas if I had used GNOME exclusively, I would never have missed them (I
would not have realised their existence).
All in all, I think Ubuntu wins when it comes to package management, so it's
a fine choice. If can have KDE installed if needed.
Best wishes,
Roy
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