I missed upgrading to 11.1 as there seemed to be too many problems. 11.0 has worked nicely for me.
But now I think I am ready to give KDE 4 a go.
As for Office - I have found Office 3.0 & 3.1 good for the eye candy, but full of faults particularly when viewing MS Office documents.
Me too. I'm thinking installing it 11.2 to an external drive just to test it out.
Not particular "looking forward". I am happy with 10.3 and KDE 3.5. I am for stability, not for eye-candy.
I am also afraid that my wife and two other friends which I lured into using openSUSE will not be happy when they have to adopt to a new environment, and that only for security reasons.
Security reasons because 10.3 will have half a year shorter lifetime now and thus no security updates shortly after 11.2 will be there. So you may come to the conclusion that I am very unhappy with the shortened openSUSE lifetime. For one of the systems I have to travel rather far to update it.
I know that openSUSE is a coal for many of us (that confirms that it is not mature as an alternative to Windows, but a hobby), but it is a means to get you work done for others (as a better alternative to Windows).
I will be switching to 11.2 after I thrash it about some. Being B/W constrained I will most likely buy a DVD from one of the places that burn them. I bought 11 from openSUSE since I believe in supporting the effort when possible.
I agree with hcvv that changing the Support time creates many issues. A thread concerning this Topic is located here.
I've got it in vmware if I'm honest I have more troubles with Suse in vmware, and tbh they really should be able to make this work the hardware is abstracted from the host. So in theory they just have a couple of modules to make it work with, that are consistent and no glitzy effects.
Though not being a KDE4 fan I can say it has improved a fair bit now but they lost me, since taking up LXDE I have to say I have less troubles even on the Suse install. Though iirc the referenced repo on the wiki is the worse one and outdated.
Now my latest is zypper not refreshing, I hope its just a blip, but I've lost a bit of love for Suse to me the last few just have not had the QA that I expected. I now actually find my bleeding edge arch install more stable than Suse. I recently lost my 11.1 due to an upgraded kernel OK I accept I was in the unknown, but I do not expect my /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to be overwritten, I never did find out how to remake my initial image with ext4dev fs.
I was introduced to Suse by 9.1 then I really started using it on 9.3 to me these are what Suse was it was stable it was good, I liked Suse for that. I found arch because I wanted bleeding edge and for that it is good, but in my eyes Suse is no longer stable, and I'm being less and less inclined to recommend it. I also have less and less of a use for it, I have other distro's that offer easier access to prop software, and I have a fairly stable bleeding edge distro, so I'm just not sure any more what Suse is offering. The last couple have felt like sled/sles test distros 9.1 to ~ 10.3 didn't. Ok a few glitches along the way, but it didn't feel like test distros.
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