I’ve told you before that I migrated entirely to linux. in the same post, I mentioned that I’m using linux Mint. In this post, however, I also mentioned that I don’t like Ubuntu. Now, after fiddling around with Mint, I remember why I don’t like Ubuntu. And you’re going to read it all here.

The first thing I do after the installation is finished is, like all normal geek, go to nvidia’s driver download page adn grab the latest linux driver. I installed it the hard way, instead of using envy. I did that because the driver installed in envy is version 100.14.23, while the newest driver is version 169.12, which is far newer, and should be better. I tried using the earlier version, but it just somehow kills the X server.

The next thing I know, driver installed succesfully, compiz works well, no problem with screen resolution and refresh rate. For one happy day. The birds are chirping happily, rainbow in the sky, credits rolling.

The next morning, I fired up amaroK, tried to play something nice, and I get a nice arts error, it said that the audio device is being used by another application. O…kay, It’s no problem, something just screwed up in the system. I rebooted the machine, to find that it doesn’t recognize the graphics card and monitor. Oh, boy….

Now, the sound bug never showed itself anymore, and I actually think that I was just unlucky enough to ever seen it. But the graphics driver thingy shows its ugly 60Hz-640x480 behind everytime I rebooted the machine. It annoyed the hell out of me. I don’t reboot the machine often (it’s on torrent duty), but I’m also not really into installing graphics drivers everytime I reboot the machine.

Those things above drove me to take drastic measure. I downloaded my one-and-only favourite distribution.  Where I learnt shell programing. Where I first see the desktop cube. The OpenSuSE. I only downloaded the KDE live CD, but I’ll work my way from there somehow.

Now, those Linux Mint problem might show up because I’m a noob and don’t understand how to install the graphics drivers correctly, but then again, I followed every steps necessary, and still end up screwed. Well, not to mention the possibility that since I don’t like Ubuntu, somehow its descendant hates me back.

But don’t let this rant stops you from using the Ubuntu family. It’s a good distribution. All those people who likes them can’t be wrong. But I’m sticking to OpenSuSe.