openSUSE follow-up + teaser
Some interesting stories and some good points were pointed out in the debate following my review of openSUSE and some extra notes was added to the review because of the comments. I’ve decided to highlight some of these good points and stories in this follow-up:
The installation does potentially dangerous things without warning the user
…Something you didn’t mentionned enough : by default, SuSe is setup to shrink windows partitions, without asking or even warning enough the basic user ! Very dangerous I think, considering Windows file systems don’t like these kind of operations if they haven’t been defragmented first !…
Pointed out by Nikoo
Unofficial, but highly thought of repositories for media-support
… Concerning your fears about 3rd party repositories: Packman’s and Guru’s repositories have a long standing and high reputation. They became almost an integral part of Suse. Otherwise it is true that some 3rd party repositories have to be treated with care, not so much for possible spyware but because they might have some very buggy packages lying around. And generally I find 3rd party repositories still much more secure than just downloading programs somewhere on the internet. If there should appear a repository with viruses or spyware it would be banned very quickly by the community…
Pointed out by Patrick
Storry from a happy openSUSE-user
…I am a Computer Programmer/Analsyst, of approximately 7 years in the programming field. I mainly program in C++/C#/Visual Basic. I have very minimal Linux experience I have tried many distributions over the past 10 years… …Open Suse is great combination of power and simplicity. the way I look at it is this. you can either choose a distro that is super power user, and get overwhelmed by all the technical options you know nothing about, or you could choose a super simple distro that has next to nothing with it. or you can pick a distro like Open suse 10.2 and get the perfect medium…
By Peter
Thank you all for a good debate!
Teaser: If you’re interested in playing your Windows-games in Linux through Cedega, then you should check in tomorrow the 28th, at around 9 pm CET/3 pm ET.