Then I had several tries with Ubuntu where I had always problems with my drivers, especially the Wireless WIFI card and some other issues.
That said, I had a bad impression about Linux in general, and for me, a double click-install process is always better than digging in hundreds of lines of instructions to make things done.
This week, after installing Windows 7 professional I decided I have to be on the track learning to develop apps under C# and especially F# not only on the .NET but also on Mono, also, making some Linux stuff to work on windows using Cygwin and such tools is just a nightmare as you all know. So dual booting Win7 and Linux was the best choice.
Choosing the distribution was not an obvious step, I was advised (on twitter) to use Ubuntu and OpenSUSE, after all, I decided to go on with OpenSUSE. Of course we can't escape the problems of installation on Linux (like if it is supposed to :) ) so I posted my problem on their forum and got the answer in less that 15 minutes, which completely solved my problem.
I'm really amazed how OpenSUSE worked for me, it detects all my drivers automatically without any further configuration, provided me a very clean comprehensive Disk Partitioning tool when installing and much much other stuff. My WIFI also is working perfectly without any manual interaction.
Installing new apps was really quick and easy using YaST, first of all I installed : Kate, Ocaml, some text editors and Flash Player.
Besides this, Google Wave works smoothly on Firefox 3.0.4, and Firefox itself is pretty fast not like what I experienced before, which means once updating to the 3.5 version things would go faster.
Next step on my list : F# under Mono, Obrowser : executing OCaml on the browser client side, and of course digging in the OS itself.
And yep, this post is written right from OpenSUSE :D
