Since posting the First impressions blog about the new openSuSE 11.0 release, I have spent quite a bit more time exploring it - in the process of which I have installed it three more times. Here are some more observations made along the way.

My intention here is to present general observations and comparisons with Ubuntu Linux. When I have run into problems, I have not yet made much of an attempt to solve them, because I want to look at this from the perspective of a typical/ordinary PC user. I know that for many, probably most, of them I could dig a little deeper and sort it out, but that is not (yet) my intention.

During installation it asks you what desktop you would like - Gnome, KDE 3.5 or KDE 4.0. I have now installed openSuSE at least once with each of these, and I prefer KDE 4.0. This is, of course, purely a matter of personal preference; all three seemed to work just fine.

Online Update seemed to work just fine on both KDE installations. I suspect that its failure to work in the first installation I did, with Gnome, was some sort of external problem - either I made a mistake, or there was a network problem somewhere.

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