See I know how people keep claiming how Ubuntu is the way forward for the desktop linux and how it’s been ‘made for humans’. Even though SUSE Desktop Enterprise edition hasn’t been released yet, I was keen on getting in on the action a little bit in advance, so I got SUSE 10.1 (it’s the full community version that’s got most of the SDE features) just so I can start getting into the groove.

It all installed more or less without too much hassle. The only problem so far has been installing my graphics card driver. I swear to god, it’s like pulling teeth. I know there has been some serious enhancements since the last time I checked in on Linux, but alas the one thing that still remains a mindfield of pain is installing a programme. In my mind it should be as easy dragging and dropping a file into a folder and just riding the installation setup. I shouldn’t have to sort out permissions and remember syntax and type in all sorts of things to get my graphics card to work (in case you were wondering, it still doesn’t actually work).

Once I get my house in order I’ll be sure to write some more indepth posts about what and why I think can still be improved regarding how Linux does things. I don’t want to critise because that’s counter productive. I’m just going to offer a helping hand in terms of how people expect certain things to work. It’ll take some time but things are generally heading in the correct direction.