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<blockquote data-quote="samuel337" data-source="post: 100428" data-attributes="member: 10347">Paul S:In fact I have - I installed OpenSuSE 10.2 recently and it was a pain trying to get my video card/LCD monitor to work because SaX2 didn't work properly. In the end I overwrote the X11.conf file with the default install one. Then I realised the O/S nv driver doesn't like my 7300GT so I had to install the official nvidia driver to get 3D accel. and xgl working (in fact I still had to take a leap-of-faith and use the SHIFT-key-hack to enable xgl). Then I had to screw around again to get some sort of MP3 media library program working (Helix Banshee, as RealPlayer is just that - a player only). Helix Banshee is really slow too, even if I'm accessing music on a local drive (a fair sized collection). And now I can't work out why I can't mount my shares using mount so I can use them in other apps. Most apps I've tried don't recognise the smb:// network browsing extension yet, apart from Nautilus.Its much, much, much better that it used to be, especially when apps like Synaptic came along. And of course, I'm negating to mention that everything else worked out of the box (apart from my DTV card because OpenSuSE doesn't have an MPEG2 decoder) and the bundled apps work without a problem too (except for Zenworks, which crashes sometimes). But it can be much better - not just to match Windows, but to surpass it.Roberdin:Nice points too.Sam</blockquote>

[QUOTE="samuel337, post: 100428, member: 10347"] Paul S: In fact I have - I installed OpenSuSE 10.2 recently and it was a pain trying to get my video card/LCD monitor to work because SaX2 didn't work properly. In the end I overwrote the X11.conf file with the default install one. Then I realised the O/S nv driver doesn't like my 7300GT so I had to install the official nvidia driver to get 3D accel. and xgl working (in fact I still had to take a leap-of-faith and use the SHIFT-key-hack to enable xgl). Then I had to screw around again to get some sort of MP3 media library program working (Helix Banshee, as RealPlayer is just that - a player only). Helix Banshee is really slow too, even if I'm accessing music on a local drive (a fair sized collection). And now I can't work out why I can't mount my shares using mount so I can use them in other apps. Most apps I've tried don't recognise the smb:// network browsing extension yet, apart from Nautilus. Its much, much, much better that it used to be, especially when apps like Synaptic came along. And of course, I'm negating to mention that everything else worked out of the box (apart from my DTV card because OpenSuSE doesn't have an MPEG2 decoder) and the bundled apps work without a problem too (except for Zenworks, which crashes sometimes). But it can be much better - not just to match Windows, but to surpass it. Roberdin: Nice points too. Sam [/QUOTE]

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