Suse Linux, Vista, and XP

21 Mar 2007 09:49 pm | Category: Eric, Tech

So I’ve been checking out other people’s computers to see what operating systems they’re using (no, I’m not stalking people) and I decided that eye candy (pretty looks) was what I wanted. So the Mac really is the best overall I think. It’s got the eye candy, the functionality, and the support that I wanted. But to run it, I need a Mac…and I won’t settle for anything less than a Mac Book Pro…which is about $2000 more than I have.

Last week though, Novell came to school and presented to ASM (the nerd club…Association for Systems Management). They demoed the latest version of Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED), their own customized flavor of Linux. I was pretty impressed with what they had and so thought that I’d settle and install it for a week. I have to say the pros are: solid and well-tested, very impressive eye candy, enough support and development to have all the necessary business apps working. The cons: Because of the testing and the wanted stability, it’s just as hard to customize as Windows is in a corporate environment; and you can’t play games (the most important of course). So ultimately, even though I was impressed with what Novell has done with SLED, I’m extremely frustrated with the difficulty I experienced in customizing it. So I just deleted the partition (the part of the hard drive it was on) instead of uninstalling…and XP wouldln’t start up =(

So….to make an even longer story not so long, I had to install Windows Vista and that’s what I’m using right now. Besides the nicer look and the dock on the side (which is pretty much copied from Mac OS X), there’s no reason to use Vista instead of XP.

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