SuSE is indeed a bloated, slow distro, as are RedHat/Fedora and Mandrake. However they do not represent the GNU/Linux OS as a whole. Anyone with the balls to run Slackware or the patience to run Gentoo and compile everything from source will have much faster systems. In the case of Gentoo installs, the difference is even more pronounced because every single package is optimized for the instruction set of the specific processor in the computer.
My advice on SuSE is to go into Yast and turn off any services you don't need (much like Windows' services.msc).
What does Firefox have to do with the price of tea in China? It wasn't distributed by default with any major Linux distros last I checked. They're all still stuck on that bloatware we like to call Mozilla.
While X is better for displaying graphics, developers find D3D easier than OpenGL to implement games. Microsoft does all the graphics library gruntwork for the developer, and the end products run fine on the OS that the vast majority of potential cusomers run. For developers, it's win-win. As such Linux gets screwed when developers choose to go D3D only.
Linux is, ironically, well-suited for day-to-day tasks. However, until OpenOffice plays nicely with Microsoft formats of Office files, I find I have to do all my office type work in Windows. OOO is good, just not perfect.
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SuSE is indeed a bloated, slow distro, as are RedHat/Fedora and Mandrake. However they do not represent the GNU/Linux OS as a whole. Anyone with the balls to run Slackware or the patience to run Gentoo and compile everything from source will have much faster systems. In the case of Gentoo installs, the difference is even more pronounced because every single package is optimized for the instruction set of the specific processor in the computer.
My advice on SuSE is to go into Yast and turn off any services you don't need (much like Windows' services.msc).
What does Firefox have to do with the price of tea in China? It wasn't distributed by default with any major Linux distros last I checked. They're all still stuck on that bloatware we like to call Mozilla.
While X is better for displaying graphics, developers find D3D easier than OpenGL to implement games. Microsoft does all the graphics library gruntwork for the developer, and the end products run fine on the OS that the vast majority of potential cusomers run. For developers, it's win-win. As such Linux gets screwed when developers choose to go D3D only.
Bash for Windows is an absolute joke.
Linux is, ironically, well-suited for day-to-day tasks. However, until OpenOffice plays nicely with Microsoft formats of Office files, I find I have to do all my office type work in Windows. OOO is good, just not perfect.
Perhaps you should load the driver and Google how to config your printer. :-O
If you're an HPer, http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net is for you.
You have to load the driver for any printer you install on Windows, too. GASP, etc.
Uh...it's Windows Server 2003. ;)