OpenSUSE Linux 12.3 has been released

Sorry to be so negative, but uggh... So much work has gone into KDE over the years and it still reminds me of 90's IT-guy art. From the rainbow colored icons to the cluttered layouts to the mixed light and dark themes.

Ubuntu have a patched library and sensible defaults that gives their distributions a better out of box (off DVD?)experience. I wish others would pay attention to this kind of detail.

I've found that with nvidia graphics cards I need to use the proprietary drivers; nouveau is not quite there yet with fonts in my experience. I'd be delighted if someone has a font-config fix for that as nouveau is pretty nice these days.

KDE hides the hinting/subpixel antialiassing settings in Application Appearance / Fonts from memory.

they are? i thought when they were configured correctly they were considered similar in quality, but different in approach to osx (there is a long article somewhere discussing this, but i cannot find it now i need to reference it, sorry).

[edit http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/font-rendering-resp... isn't what i remember, but since opensuse uses MS fonts (see below) covers the basic issue]

in opensuse you typically have to install the fetchmsttfonts package.

when I set up my debian VM on a new laptop recently, it took me a few days to (be bothered to) figure out how to fix font rendering in XFCE. Once I did, I could use the same fonts and font sizes as in OS X with comparable (although slightly different) final effect.

In terms of desktop environments, I've only used Ubuntu and Fedora recently, but I've found their font rendering to be sufficiently pleasant. Either way, the lower-level features of the OS are much more important to me, as is probably the case with most Linux users.

As a Debian user that was something that I wasn't satisfied, and which Ubuntu did much better than anyone else, finally I found this link and I could match Ubuntu font rendering.

http://bit.ly/reTb4m

For me the real trick was:

echo "Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault" > ~/.Xresources

And I wonder how people can put up with the perpetually blurry and over-bold Mac font rendering, not to mention the fonts themselves.

YaST vs yum/apt is technically a wrong dichotomy, since YaST (as a package manager) is just a graphical frontend to zypper, which is pretty much like yum and apt, just with its own syntax.

I know that many people dislike YaST, yet I have never understood why. The point is that you do not have to use YaST, you can edit every config in the normal way with your favourite text-editor, you can do everything via scripts, you can do everything headless etc.

YaST is a nice bonus, but openSUSE offers the same thing everybody else offers in terms of non-gui tools. Just from personal use patterns, I sometimes use YaST for convenience sake, the user editor is nice, and so is the bootloader-stuff. Can I do it differently? Sure, user{mod,add) etc. work just as well and might be preferential sometimes, the point is that both work.

YaST is not comparable to yum or apt. YaST serves as a general OS configuration tool, sort of like "Control Panel" in MS Windows. While YaST can be used to install packages, packages can be retrieved from the command-line using "zypper" which functions similarly to apt-get and yum: http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Zypper

I'm not really sure what you are referring to with "support". If you are referring to the sheer size of the community, Ubuntu does has a larger community and also benefits from the fact that most Debian-related/Ubuntu-derivative related docs/advice apply to Ubuntu as well. It looks like openSUSE has a fairly active community forum: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/

Greg KH gave a talk at Linaro Connect recently in which he mentions being contacted by somone who accidentally let slip they were in posession of very new silicon, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiED1K98lnw

It's amazing though, isn't it? KDE, Gnome, XFCE, awesome, Enlightenment... That's a lot of DEs!

I have it installed with Win8 and secure boot enable in a Lenovo machine. And in a secure boot enable dell machine without Windows.

The fact people have to ask this because of "secure boot" is, in my opinion, some incredibly sad shit. Locking down hardware, or erecting barriers, bothers me a lot.

Can't you disable secure boot in the bios?

Try disabling SecureBoot in the BIOS. I was able to install Linux on my girlfriend's lenovo x230 with secure boot and windows 8 simply by toggling the option off.

It should, they have added secure boot support in 12.3

At least heise (the publisher behind the H) that installing worked on a test computer with activated secure boot in their German article

http://www.heise.de/open/artikel/Die-Neuerungen-in-Opensuse-...

On their wiki opens use writes that it's still experimental: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:UEFI#Secure_Boot