day 2 of the SuSE experiment….
I discovered last night that Kate has good code highlighting, and I like the font smoothing and toolbars better than those in jEdit, which I had to start from the console anyway.
I’m splitting my browsing between Firefox, which works more like I’m used to both in terms of keyboard shortcuts and CSS rendering, and Konqueror, which has the pretty font smoothing. (that’s what I liked best about C’s install of WinXP, so I’m really enjoying it in SuSE/KDE.)
tweaking the desktop and toolbars is fun and easy. the media player (xmms) works quite easily — I even pointed it at all the music on my Windows partition and now it loads it as a playlist every time I open it. (Elaine’s infinite radio strikes again!)
I successfully installed the nVidia drivers for my video card, which helped with the initial display.
on the other hand…I can’t for the life of me figure out how to actually install software. I downloaded Firefox, but I’m running it by opening up the folder that I unzipped it to, and I’m just clicking on the Firefox script icon. that can’t be right. haven’t been able to figure out how to install AxY FTP at all. I mean, seriously, what’s the standard operating procedure for this sort of thing? is there something basic that I’m not understanding?