Jim Henderson wrote:
> Then I tried the 11.2 KDE liveCD.  I generally haven't liked KDE, but 
> KDE4 is relatively new and I wanted to give it a fair shake.  Nice 
> environment - I actually kinda liked it.

yeah, I'm willing to try it too.  It's certainly the most modern GUI 
environment on Linux right now.  But surely GTK and Gnome will catch up...

> Next, I installed Windows 7 Ultimate N on the system.  On the plus side - 
> the installation was FAST.  Of the three full product installs, it was 
> the fastest, actually.

I have a feeling that lacking such full featured applications such as 
OpenOffice, Gimp, some 4 fully featured text editors, Evolution, a fully 
featured media player like Amarok, and other niceties has something to 
do with it.  But, hey!, one can have loads of fun with notepad and paint 
alone! :D

> So with stock hardware in the Dell laptops, I have to say that the idea 
> that Windows 7 "just works" and openSUSE 11.2 doesn't is complete pants.

This has been a given for many years by now.  Lucky for Microsoft that 
customers already get their new PC's with Vista SP3 fully installed and 
properly configured by OEM's...

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