And the answer is- SuSE!

[cga]

OK. I am a SuSE guy. I bought and installed 8.2 Saturday and have been running it with KDE and I think that this is a very valid "Joe User" desktop. I am impressed.

As to my going to Debian or something, well, I have too much else to do.

[Scott_Tiger]

Glad you like it. SuSE 8.0 was the first release I came across that got newbie me to ditch Windows. Really nice. I did find later on though that RH was bit closer to my ideal distro. To each his own..

I do hope you find the time to play with Debian though. It's a really impressive effort..

[coltrane]

I have 8.2 Pro, but was unable to get it play with my Voodoo3 card, Im getting another computer this week, so hopefully things will be better

[dizznuts]

Ok, haven't bought the SuSE 8.2 pro because I still haven't gotten 8.1 pro to hook up to the net. I installed it just fine. Dual boot with my windows now. But I don't have time read the manual plus it's not written for joe users. At least not 8.1 pro. How the heck do I hook up to the net? I don't have a winmodem already checked that. I have a 3com internal made for Suse, mandrake, XP, etc... Configured my modem with Yast 2. It detects the modem because I hear it dialing out but no connection? Yuck, please help! djmaistro9mm@netscape.net or post it, thanks.

[cga]

[quote author=dizznuts link=board=7;threadid=6975;start=0#65883 date=1054145286]
Ok, haven't bought the SuSE 8.2 pro because I still haven't gotten 8.1 pro to hook up to the net. I installed it just fine. Dual boot with my windows now. But I don't have time read the manual plus it's not written for joe users. At least not 8.1 pro. How the heck do I hook up to the net? I don't have a winmodem already checked that. I have a 3com internal made for Suse, mandrake, XP, etc... Configured my modem with Yast 2. It detects the modem because I hear it dialing out but no connection? Yuck, please help! djmaistro9mm@netscape.net or post it, thanks.
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What are you using to control your modem? How do you go about trying to connect to the internet and what happens when it fails?