Who said we have to work with ugly Linux distros?
I was bored on new year's day so I decided to try some new distros. Then opensuse stroke me with its beauty and attention to details.
1. Pictures speak louder than words.
I am personally not a big fan of 3D desktop or wabbling of windows but I did fall in love with the idea of making Linux a little prettier. I may be getting old but I just think basic graphical designs such as shapes and choice of colors have a lot of potential. I mean people love paintings and (generally) never want to replace it with some 3D stuff. (But the technology to enable the 3Ds and wabblings are definitely encouraged because even though I don't like it for daily use, there may be times that those could be nice.)
2. Go commercial.
If the 2007 booming of Linux and the emergence of the Linux machines taught us one thing, then we definitely know Linux is not going to just sit in the basement in some geek's machine. Instead, Linux has a huge market potential. But what makes Linux sales-ready? A friend told me, to him, Linux is all command line. I don't think commandline based systems are ready to sell (universally). Instead, a delicate GUI and working out of box are the keys. Ubuntu is quite close to that but Canonical promised it'll be free.
Besides working out of the box nicely, opensuse has even a restoration tool. (It is a little slow compared to some other distros but that also characterises commercial operating systems :P ) So people at Novell probably only need some marketing. Sign a contract with Dell or something !
Trivia:
I did met some problems.
1. It doesn't auto-mount your Windows partitions as nicely as Ubuntu. You'll have to change fstab yourself and make a symbolic link on the desktop.
2. nm-applet keeps asking for keyring password all the time. I haven't found any solutions and the warning is, don't try to use pam files from other systems. I tried to use Fedora/Ubuntu fixes, then I can't login anymore.
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