So, I've been using suse 9.3 for a week or two now. Very nice. Clean, unified environment, I don't have to go to the shell to get my nvidia drivers working, multimedia packages are easy to download and install. And it's really easy to administer. I use it as my web development workstation.


Having said that, here are a few things I don't like about it. I'm not asking for help, or anything, I'm just venting. (maybe one of the suse developers frequents the forum)

-Automount is great, but when I go to the "computer" link on the desktop, audio cd's stop playing. They don't pause, they stop.

-auto-play of audio cd's is nice, but I have two cd drives, the second of which does not have an analog audio cable. kcd auto-starts if I place a cd in the second drive, but doesn't play it, because it automatically points to the first cd drive. When I go in and change to the second cd drive, it still doesn't play, because digital cd audio isn't enabled. Lame.

(ps, I can't find the option to switch that... I've seen it on kcd before on other distros... am I just completely missing it?)

-I actually had more video playing capability before I installed one of the multimedia-packs. Maybe the install screwed up somehow, but that is also lame.

-sensors-detect picked up my mobo sensors, but running sensors results in "no sensors found"! I'll try that one again. Still, I've gotten it running on other distros with no problem.

-where is smbuseradd?? Why can't i do this from yast? (unless you can, in which case, ignore this item)

-why can't we do twinview from yast?



Don't get me wrong, I really like suse 9.3. The automount problems I have above apply to every distro I've used in the past.

(completely off-topic ps.
Novell called me today; they saw that I had downloaded novell linux desktop and asked me if I needed any help with anything. I know that's just a shameless publicity stunt, but very cool, nonetheless)

I believe you can, not sure, I'm at my work now without linux, but I believe you could add workgroups and users through yast
Because monitors (and video-cards etc. for that matter) arent set-up using yast, but using Sax2. Check it out.

oh, and
thats not the distro's fault you know

Yeah, error between keyboard and chair, most likely.

However, I've used sax- still no go. Best as I can tell, if both monitors are plugged into the same card, sax won't pick them up. It's not a serious problem or anything, I just modified somebody elses twinview config, copy+paste, and Huzzah! Two screens!

glad to hear, and as i forgot in my last post:
also good to hear you enjoy SuSe