30 September 2011
Not quite as smooth as openSUSE as a desktop experience. Many things just work on SUSE – just not the touch screen – scanner, printer, etc. are all easier to configure (or so it seems for a Fedora but not Gnome newbie). Both SUSE and Ubuntu have done MUCH more integration (by default anyway) of desktop configuration settings.
21 September 2011
After 12 (?) years of running laptops with (open){SUSE,SuSE}, I’ve left that distro for Fedora 15. Why? Lenovo X220t touch screen didn’t work even with a couple of hours of fiddling with openSUSE 11.4, and then found a post (lost the URL) of folks noting that Fedora 15Â worked just fine for them. (trick: install xorg-x11-wacom-devel).Bonus: it is better in sync with our current research environment, which was running openSUSE (and some SLES) when self-managed, but now is managed by CAC, and runs RHEL or CentOS-based ROCKS. So the laptop being on a Redhat-compatible system helps, too.