[NTLUG:Discuss] <sigh> Which distro this time?

[Fred]

Leroy:

I just installed opensuse 11.2/KDE 4.3 on a P4 Dell laptop 
and the jury is still out. Most seems to work ok... most.
There are irritating little gems like the 11.2 bug that says
that the DHCPCD (client) default process has to be killed
and then restarted in order for the networking to work.
Most irritating. That one little quirk would make it not
ready for prime time in any book. But it is a simple matter 
to bring up a term and type it in. BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO!!!

I never have liked KDE 4's look and feel. I think it is an awkward
layout. Some people, however, especially the dweebs that
created it, like it fine. So be it. IceWM works well.

Upgrades don't work. Best thing since drives are so cheap is to
get a new drive, install the OS on it, then move over any data
you want from the old drive. Scuze me... upgrades don't work 
right like they are supposed to and it takes less time to do a
fresh install than it does to screw with the upgrade. My opinion,
of course. YMMV

On balance, I repeat what everyone else says: If you want
stability then stick with enterprise versions and don't go
with bleeding edge, which this definitely is. And if you
go with the latest and greatest, do updates regularly
to get the latest bug fixes and be prepared for the updates to 
break something, usually the program that you most need
at the time.

Good luck,
Fred