[Discuss] SUSE looks good!

[John Blomfield]

pw wrote:
> Joan McIlmoyl Cleghorn wrote:
>> Well John, this should probably be in the Newbie List, however, as my
>> problem is all your fault<g>, I'm posting it here. You suggested that 
>> we try
>> SUSE 10.3 so I promptly decided to d/l the Live CD to give it a try. 
>> I was
>> pleasantly surprised at how quickly I was able to d/l the ISO as I've 
>> had
>> some really bad experiences with 8 to 10 hours of d/ling...... Burned 
>> the
>> disc and popped it in. Up it came and in an interesting shade of green
>> (guys, don't even think of trying it the day after the night 
>> before<gggg>).
>> I d/l'd the Gnome version btw. I think I might like it if only I could
>> navigate properly in it.......it doesn't show my cursor!!! I can get my
>> trackball to work provided I can figure out where it is (i.e., if an 
>> icon or
>> button is suddenly highlighted). Mostly I had to use my keyboard to 
>> navigate
>> which was less than workable in an unfamiliar environment.......so, does
>> anyone know how I could get SUSE to give me back my cursor?<g> It's a
>> Logitech Marble FX Trackball and I've never had a problem with 
>> several other
>> Live CDs of different distros e.g. Ubuntu, Kubuntu, PCLinuxOS,
>> GenTOO.........
>>
>> 8-)
>> Joan
>
>
> Personal opinion; go back to one of the K/X Ubuntu flavours.
> Suse has always had a few quirks from personal experience.
>
> Peter
Yep! If your hardware is giving you a problem with SuSe, Peter is 
probably giving good advice!  I just tried it on some pretty old 
hardware and I it seemed ok on that but as general rule most Linux 
distros deal with old stuff better than with new or non-mainstream stuff.

John
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