Wednesday, April 6, 2011

10 and more reasons why I do not use SuSe now and gone to Mepis / AntiX

From this months onwards and after the World Cup Cricket, I have deleted SuSe from my computer.

There are 10 and more reasons.
They are as follows without any logical sequence.

1. It does not recognize more than 15 Linux partitions.
2. But faithfully recognize windows.
3. It does not give priority to other Linux distributions following the tradition of windows.
4. It discriminate other Linux distributions and in fact actively disable others at boot / install menu /time.
5. In fact it has become a wolf in sheep clothing.
6. It could not configure my new TV card in spite of 1 hour of trying and downloading.
7. It never (11.3) configured Skype
8. Its DVD is more than 4 GiB and cannot be copied as an image for posterity.
9. Its GRUB has radically changed itself and would not to recognize other boot menus of different Linux distributions.
10. It cannot delete large files.
11. It has no veritable CRON configuration to delete tmp files and like windows collect muck all over var and tmp
12. It is heavy and clumsy at times in spite of beautiful garb and it is infected with windows image.

I remember giving 10 out of 10 on first encounter with it, live and or install but now after using briefly over a month I have reduced 12 and and it is getting into two minuses.

If I use it any more there may be more minuses and I cannot be that harsh to a friend I associated with over the last 6 to 7 years.

Now I use AntiX and Mepis.
1. Unlike Debian it has a nice Graphic Front.
2. AntiX is fast to boot unlike Debian.
3. It has all the utilities I use.
4. Integrate well with other Linux except of course with SuSe
5. It has a sweeper incorporated

Debian I use simply because it has Sinhala capability and if I want anything missing apt get will do the honours.

Why I still do not use Ubuntu is that it has no root capability except sudo which I hate.