openSUSE defeats Mandriva
About this time last year I decided that Linux simply wasn’t good enough and returned to Windows XP. A week later I discovered that Mandriva was actually up to scratch, and so I ditched Windows and moved completely across to Linux. Since then I’ve upgraded from Mandriva 2008.0 to 2008.1 which worked rather smoothly, and when 2009.0 came out I actually made the switch to the 64-bit version without too much fuss as well. So, 2008 really was the year of Linux on the desktop for me.
Given that Mandriva fired one of their most valuable employees recently, I think the writing is on the wall for that distro, sadly.
openSUSE seems to have a larger community and when the chips are down, having more people on IRC to help out counts for something. There’s also my cute SUSE plush gecko with fridge magnets for feet (given to me by a colleague several years ago) beckoning me to try it again. So, here’s a summary of my experiences with openSUSE 11.1 so far:
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