The application browser and control center from Slab don’t start at all because of critical errors. Well, on this Alpha it’s easy to see it’s not quite polished yet. Honestly, I think such a showing as the bugginess and slowness of Suse Linux 10.1 just gives the entire Linux community a bad reputation. If a small community distro like PCLinuxOS can figure out how to make it perform fast, I’d think the resources at Novell could do even better! I know KDE has grown to be quite a hog, but come on. Is Novell even aware of how slow it is? I originally got into Linux because of its performance. I’m just terribly disappointed as to how sluggish it has gotten. However, Suse has always had the most polished look and feel of all distros. PCLinuxOS, on the otherhand, is an absolute rocket. I thought there was a SuperSuse fork that was supposedly folded into the OpenSuse project? There was just noticeable pauses and lack of response in everything. You could count in the time you clicked on the Kmenu and it actually opened. Now, I have a newer Athlon XP 2800+ system, and it just crawled. Now, it was never a speed demon, but I used to run it on an old 600 P3 and got by fine using KDE. When I booted up Suse, I was astonished as to how slow it has gotten. I’ve been off running Debian and its various spinoffs (*buntu, Mepis, Linspire), Mandriva, Fedora…and the very latest, PCLinuxOS. Now, I haven’t used Suse Linux since 9.3. As a former long-time Suse user, I felt it was a duty for me to test the 10.1 release with its new XGL interface and all.
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