I had heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu - so I decided to move from Suse 10.1 to Ubuntu 7.10 about 5 months ago.
At first I was reasonably impressed. As with any apt based system installations are a breeze. But then as time went by it began to become obvious Suse is miles ahead.
The main missing bits in Ubuntu are
- A control Panel - Yast lets me changes things after install
- Not enough working out of the box (e.g. Flash, Java)
- Robust, after install, hardware detection. On ubuntu I upraded my graphics card and am treated to a page of errors. On Suse it dectects this, recovers and auto-configures my new card.
- Finsh- Suse is just more professionally finished. From the graphical boot screens, through to centralised configurations it shows they have been doing linux well, longer than pretty much anyone else.
So I switched back to Suse 10.3 yesterday - and it all just works. I was happily developing in IntelliJ within a couple of hours of installing it.
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