bye to ubuntu + many thanks

[Eberhard Roloff]

Anthony M Simonelli wrote:

> Are you saying you're going to use OpenSuse instead of Ubuntu?   I
> couldn't leave the Debian based distros.  If I were ever to leave
> Ubuntu, it would be for Debian.  I just like running a current desktop
> and current Gnome, which Ubuntu provides.
> 
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 10:19 -0500, Julian Alarcon wrote:
>> JEJE, and I chose Ubuntu 3 Months ago upper Opensuse.. JEJEJE..

Yes, this is what I am saying. JEJEJE ;-)

Well, I am really sad to have to leave Ubuntu, but there are reasons pro and
con:
-I do not like the Novell/MS agreement
-I learned to prefer apt/aptitude way over rpm
-I found Kubuntu to have a much better polished KDE than OpenSUSE has to
offer

on the other hand:
-From (K;X)Ubuntu 5.04, the 16bit PCMCIA ethernet cards on my two old (very
old) test laptops were never working. I spend nights and days to do it,
following every forum and every post I could get my hands on and the best I
could get was: they are initialised but it does not work. This is even more
trouble since any other distro I used from OpenSuSE to Kubuntu to
DamnSmallLinux to... supports this out of the box. And: I need it!

-From Edgy on, my soundblaster Audigy LS suddenly did not have sound
anymore. I spent nights and days, following every ubuntu post and the
excellent ubuntu sound guide on the wicki. Again this led to nothing but no
avail. Again, any other distro I tried, you may imagine it.... 

Now I
-have a job to do and can not afford to spend ages with things that "are
supposed to work" for years, but somehow do not work on Ubuntu.
-I am not prepared to invest into buying new hardware, as long as I can do
with what I have. Admitteldly this sort of suspends me from modern OSes but
this is what I can live with, as long as there are "modern" OSes that work. 
-my children threatened to go to windows, since they need sound to play
their games.
As I want them to stay on Linux as much as I can, this is not what I can
live with.

So it was not a big deal, and actually nothing to really worry about, but
for me it was the reason to change.

And just to be clear: With all it's disadvantages that I do not deny, the
things I need most and (kind of) expect to be "simply there" work very well
with OpenSuSE.

Again, I am not saying that I it is reasonable to expect anything from an OS
that I did not pay for. but apparently in my case, another Linux works
better and supports my immediate very basic needs much better.

Kind regards and keep up the good work
Eberhard