Ubuntu vs. Suse Linux?

[Philippart]

What would you install? what are the pros and cons of both?

Thanks

 

[IamDavid]

search is your friend....

UBUNTU

 

[Philippart]

Originally posted by: IamDavid
search is your friend....

not yet 😀

 

[Brazen]

Originally posted by: Philippart

Originally posted by: IamDavid
search is your friend....

not yet 😀

He meant search the forums and you'll find this has already been discussed thousands of times. There's probably a good 10 or 20 threads just in the last week.

 

[magomago]

Yeah do a search, there are countless threads on this.

 

[n0cmonkey]

If only the Anandtech search function worked... 😉

 

[Lepard]

Originally posted by: Philippart
What would you install? what are the pros and cons of both?

Thanks

I can't give you any pros and cons, but i will tell you to try them both for a couple of days each. Then you can make the decision.

Me myself, I stuck with Ubuntu. Seemingly easier and in my opinion less bulky and more responsive.

 

[jlbenedict]

I cannot speak on any experience with Ubuntu, since I've never installed it.
I can speak on some experience with the latest Suse 10.1.

Compared to Windows XP, it installs just as easy, if not easier than Windows XP.
I installed it on the rig in my signature, and everything worked right after the install.

I'm using the Gnome window manager, and upon boot, my system resource meter shows only about 115mb of memory utilization. Not too bad, for a semi-bloated Linux install.

Thats about all I can input so far, since I have limited use of Suse, so far.


And for all you that run around here and scream "Search!".. have you every tried to use the search function? It works half @$$..

Whats the damn use of the forums, if you want everyone to search? There would be no new topics, and the forum would be boring; thats my opinion.

 

[stupidkid]

Suse is easier to use. You can pretty much do everything without touching the command line. However, Ubuntu's repository (list of available programs) is a lot larger I believe. I still think Suse is better for a beginner.

 

[Philippart]

Originally posted by: Brazen

Originally posted by: Philippart

Originally posted by: IamDavid
search is your friend....

not yet 😀

He meant search the forums and you'll find this has already been discussed thousands of times. There's probably a good 10 or 20 threads just in the last week.

I know, but because everybody's shouting "use search" in every thread i made a joke out of it 😀

i already tried ubuntu for about a week, but i had to stop because i got frustrated installing my WLAN internet connection (meanwhile i changed the adapter). I don't like the command line. I'm very good at windows (even registry and stuff) but being new to linux it was very difficult.

 

[SleepWalkerX]

Suse:

- LiveDVD and Install CDs/DVDs are seperate. Pretty much need the ~4 gigs of installation files to install. Comes with KDE and Gnome.
- Need to patch the online updater as its broken when its shipped.
- Very cool modified gnome and kde desktops (kde applications menu has a search filter while gnome has one bar instead of tasks on bottom bar and tasks on top bar)
- Very easy to install and use XGL
- Comes with proprietary or restricted stuff as an option during install (mp3 support, flash, adobe, intel prowireless firmware, etc).
- Package support is limited, relies on guru or packman repositories for third party precompiled packages.

Ubuntu

- Installer and livecd on same disk.
- Only ships Gnome, need to install kde or get Kubuntu for kde desktop
- Huge number of packages available on repository.
- Great community support with huge forums
- Proprietary stuff needs to be installed from repositories, not available during install.

If you're sure you want to install linux on your hard drive get Suse. If you want to play around with a livecd and learn more about partitioning and using linux first, get Ubuntu. Both are easy for noobs.