openSUSE 11 x86_64

I have had bad experience with the x86_64 bit versions of distro's in the past, too many packages were only made for x86. Well, time has past, so I am going for it again, and putting openSUSE 11 x86_64 on my box. I had a heck of a time burning the ISO for x86_64 I downloaded using a torrent in my x86 openSUSE... eventually I had to use a command line to make it because of errors trying to burn an ISO in the graphical tool. Once burned the disc installed with one error about the source media not found or something.

I even installed it with KDE 4... used it for about 10 minutes and then reinstalled with GNome because the KDE fonts are horrible to read on my LCD and I am too dumb to figure out how to fix it. I know that KDE is beloved by many Linux power users, and I remember the outcry at Novell when it was announced that future SUSE distro's would be Gnome only. Novell had to quickly backtrack and support both in the face of flaming nerd wrath.

Having used Ubuntu and openSUSE, I prefer Ubuntu, but it just won't work with my box now for some strange reason. I really dislike RPM packages and the debian style was pretty slick almost as cool as Gentoo emerge.