Last week, I sacrificed my old SuSE installation for the new Mandrake (Mandriva?). Downloaded the DVD, selected the partition, told it to use Gnome please instead of KDE, and just let fate take it's course. I've been using it for a couple of days now, and I must say, I'm heavily impressed. Everything worked out of the box. Really everything. All hardware autodetected, hotplug for storage cards and usb stuff works flawlessly (it detects my buggy card reader with a SD card in it better than windows does). Network setup worked fine, even allowing me to browse local network, shared folders on my wifes laptop showed up without further fiddling. Today, for the first time I needed to print something from Opera at work, and i was dreading getting the network printers to work. But no, CUPS server found, roughly 1000 printers identified, which one do you want?
I've tried several distros up to now, but this is the first time it just works. Even synronizing with my Zaurus was a breeze, something I've been fighting with for almost two years now under windows. Now if only Matlab wasn't so terrible with Linux, I'd even consider wiping my windows partition for good. |
