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New Suse User here! (First "real" time on Linux)

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KeyserSoze

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I just installed Suse 9 on my laptop last night, and it works great. Just created a partition of 3 gigs, and then booted from the DVD (That was sent out by Novell a while ago), and it is fun. It gives me a FULL GUI so I can still move around, but then the terminal is one click away to get down to the dirt. All developer tools, and most programs I would think to need for an essential setup, are already installed!

I figured out the YaST for installing programs, but want to get a little more generic to truly learn the Operating System.

AND it went ahead and installed Grub to give me an option at the beginning of which OS I want to boot into.

What was surprising is that all of this was on my laptop! Insane.

I've already fixed my first "problems" 😀


That is all.




KeyserSoze
 
Originally posted by: KeyserSoze
I just installed Suse 9 on my laptop last night, and it works great. Just created a partition of 3 gigs, and then booted from the DVD (That was sent out by Novell a while ago), and it is fun. It gives me a FULL GUI so I can still move around, but then the terminal is one click away to get down to the dirt. All developer tools, and most programs I would think to need for an essential setup, are already installed!

I figured out the YaST for installing programs, but want to get a little more generic to truly learn the Operating System.

AND it went ahead and installed Grub to give me an option at the beginning of which OS I want to boot into.

What was surprising is that all of this was on my laptop! Insane.

I've already fixed my first "problems" 😀


That is all.




KeyserSoze
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Good luck in your future endeavors 🙂
 
Have fun! I think SuSE is an excellent balance between user and power user especially for the knowledgeable new users.
 
The only think I don't like is that it's got a real strong GUI. I wanted to learn Linux, but I guess it'll help for when I get stuck, and therefore won't get discouraged to give up.

I'm wiping it clean tonite, making a bigger partition, and installing ALL the apps that are on the DVD's. (The Developer Tools, all libraries, etc.)





KeyserSoze
 
I'm pretty happy with Suse 9.2 myself. I have only recently gotten into linux, so I don't know too much when it comes to configuring one. I had experimented with Mandrake, Knoppix, Red Hat, and even Gentoo (albeit with help), but always had trouble. It hasn't given me too much hassle, except for drivers of my 9800, but its an ati which is to be expected I guess. It shouldn't be too long before you get to the nuts and bolts of the OS, but its nice to have the gui useability when you don't feel like fooling with it just to do everyday tasks. Congrats on the laptop installation!
 
heh, now go from Suse to Gentoo and see what its like 😉

my first linux was Gentoo. i think ill stay with gentoo as i LOVE portage, just makes stuff easy.

MIKE
 
Originally posted by: nourdmrolNMT1
heh, now go from Suse to Gentoo and see what its like 😉

my first linux was Gentoo. i think ill stay with gentoo as i LOVE portage, just makes stuff easy.

MIKE
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Do you reccomend Gentoo for a beginner? I mean, I need a way to be able to get normal tasks done, and I'm *decent* at RTFM or Googling answers....

I dunno. I think I might just stick with this for now. I've been hearing thinks about Ubuntu, but I don't think it's for the noob like myself.




KeyserSoze
 
Gentoo was difficult to do, but really not that difficult. if you can RTFM, and read outside the box you can do it. its step by step all the way up to the GUI and then you can emerge Xchat in the command prompt, join the freenode channel, and then #gentoo, or #gentoo-amd64 like i did. and they will tell you everything from there.

plus gentoo is updated in some way just about daily.

MIKE
 
Gentoo realy isn't that bad. (at least last time I tried it out)

The installation proccess was involved and would be intimidating, but the documentation was good and the installation proceedure was layed out in fairly usefull steps. I don't think that it's that great as a 'crash course in linux' as some people look at it like that, but it has enough details that a person who pays attention can learn alot.

Sometimes some distros try to make things a bit too easy with complex tools and such, a user can plod thru it easy enough but if something small happens or goes wrong then it's very easy to get lost.

In fact installing a OS is a pretty crappy way to be introduced to a new OS. It's hard to get help if your cut off from the internet, you have to make decisions based on pretty much guesswork that will affect the finished install and if any little thing goes wrong you get completely lost because you have no way of knowing anything that is going on at any time.

Gentoo install has it's advantages and disavangatages. The major one is that it just takes to freaking long. Few people have that time to devote to such a thing, and if they mess up (which is likely since they are brand new at this sort of stuff) they pretty much are stuck with a reformat and reinstall from scratch.
 
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