A friend asked me to install Linux for him several weeks ago. He got curious after seeing Compiz Fusion in action on YouTube. Since I finally had a lot of free time last weekend, I agreed to install Linux for my friend.

The first thing that I considered before the installation was of course choosing the right distribution for him and his machine. The first distro that comes to my mind is OpenSuse 10.3. That’s right. I know it messed up my main workstation but I wanted to give it a chance as it might properly work on other hardware configuration. With this, I can also find out if my horrible experience with OpenSuse 10.3 was just one of those isolated cases.

As always, OpenSuse installation is straightforward but indeed very lengthy. If you are used to Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS, then there’s a big chance that you will loose your patience from waiting and might just “abort” the installation. As I believe that patience is a virtue, I was able to make it through the pain of waiting. After the install, I was glad that my friend’s computer was doing fine so far, as Grub was perfectly configured, and important hardware like USB, Ethernet, audio, and video were properly detected. Other improvement I noticed on 10.3 is its more responsive graphical installer compared to previous versions.

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