After the tremendously positive testing results of avocadohead with Tisiphone, I tried my luck some days ago with 11.3 on Thukydides, a Samsung P35 notebook, not the newest hardware and unfortunately with an ATI graphic card.
Installer:
as avocadohead had stated, nothing really new. The partitioning tool has improved, beside the fact, that they chose a too large font for the buttons, which rendered them unreadable. But there's always the right-mouse click so no real problem at all. Installation went smooth.
First StartUp:
looked great but using it for a few minutes the computer froze entirely, no switching back to a console, no reaction at all... then sleep interfered with new tests...
The next morning the same result: firing up seems to work, but the computer freezes after some minutes. I already deleted all kde-related folders in my home folder (which I kept from the previous install), and tried again, but the freeze persisted. On the other hand working only on a console the computer worked for several hours, so I strongly suspected graphic driver issues. Several restarts and playing around a little with different settings for the X-Server didn't help, as well as trying to install a closed-source ATI driver.
Why, oh why openSuSE do you refuse to treat ATI graphic issues (especially for a card like mine, which is quite a bit of time out in the wild)? Since I'm not keen on wasting a lot of time for getting basic functionality like a working GUI, I'll just switch back to another distro which can deal with ATI.
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