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Well OpenSuse 12.2 is released and since I never learn I will now upgrade to it and probably fall on my nose again
Since I have the Tumbleweed repos activated it should only be a matter of doing zypper up as usual the GUI tools for updating give a loot of errors and simply do not work so the zypper method is probably the easiest solution anyway.
First I did a that applies needed patches I found that on a Suse web pages so I had to try it ofcourse

It did a lot of stuff in the terminal and then I went for the and that went through without hickups, so now I should have Grub2 with plymouth bootsplash and Gnome 3.4.x according to the marketing.
I'll be back.......
Back again...
I rebooted and got a lovely plymouth splash screen followed by quite a long period with a black screen (the same thing happens in Arch so that is how the splash works evidently) and finally I entered the familiar:
"Oh no something went wrong - please contact a system administrator" gnome3 shell error. This is not so good since I have it working in Arch in VB - but in most distros gnome shell will not play along with my VB.
Normally there is an offer to turn of extensions etc to fix this - but now I only have to wait for the system administrator - so I am waiting
While I am waiting for him a try to turn on the VB 3d acceleration without any luck...Try different VB setting benchmarking from the working Arch and Suse just refuses to start the DE no automatic fallback mode here...
TIme for a failsafe boot then...
And it seems to hang forever on "Started LSB SuSEfirewall2 phase 2"

Please guys this was the failsafe boot option!
Taking a brake now maybe I'll be back - I never seem to learn........
I checked it out and it seems to be a familiar ipv6 problem: http://bit.ly/Q1SPDv
That splash screen sure looks good though
Entering right ctrl key+ F1 to enter tty1 in VB to check things out....
trying to set the gnome fallback mode in CLI:

That did not work.
Doing a just to make sure-- and obviously a lot of things needed fixing:

And that got things working!

As Linus says; we need to do a few things to get this thing almost usable so it is vital that the automatic extension page works.
And it does! So we need the places-status indicator extension and Dash to Dock and all those other extension that brings back the functionality that the Gnome devs have removed....
And ofcourse Panel Docklet version14...And naturally Lock Keys to indicate when Num and Capslock are activated.

So now it is almost usable.

Now lemme see if those Suse tools updates GUI's and Yasts work, I have been disappointed there in the past.....
GUI program update - checked...
Installing chromium with Yast GUI - checked.....
Even the repo management in Yast seems to work. Now let me see if I can locate and install Bluefish.....
I was sharpening my knives here and preparing to stab the OpenSuse guys; but no! Bluefish is there so there must have been a good cleanup in that traditional Suse repo jungel.
Going for inxi now - that'l teach them.... And yes it is not there so I try to find it in some repo and how to activate that repo etc etc. It still is a bit of a Jungle.
But I added the pacman repo because I had heard the name before and voila there was inxi

Gnome 3 still comes with only the option to close windows so I have to follow this to get it usable.
Hmm... it looks like gconf-editor will not run in OpenSuse, neither will dconf-editor - that is bad. I will have to install them first - whos brilliant idea was that?
But now I have it all back
I guess I will have to say this thing is almost usable after all Which is a big improvement in Suse terms - for me.

viking60 wrote:As Linus says; we need to do a few things to get this thing almost usable ....

In early 2000, I had narrowed the choices for my first Linux to Suse and Mandrake. I liked the Suse reptile and Gnome icons that reminded me of magical forest creatures. Both companies had a California office at the time, Suse right here in Oakland! Yet, for some reason, I ordered the Linux Mandrake 7.1 Deluxe boxed set, started using the featured KDE desktop. Your desktop movie looks and sounds very nice but, with my small business, GF and attendant projects, I barely can find time to keep my legacy IT department limping along with what I know, what I've learned.
However, it's nice to see your progress.
Maybe I should get married and have kids?

Yes I started wit a Suse Live CD in Germany back in 1999 - 2000 It was a giveaway in some store that I liked to visit during my vacation. I just forgot about Linux for many years after that and made a comeback with Mandriva years later.
I have made it a mission to regard it all as Linux and to be honest I have the most trouble with Suse. Debian with derivates are OK. Fedora and Centos are OK - I kind of like Yum, Arch is a favorite but there have been a lot of challenging changes there lately so it is clearly not for beginners.
Mandriva is limping allong and is a "has been" at the moment and it will probably come back this time to Rosa is guaranteeing the stability so I think you can stick with it.

Getting married and having children is optional - but why not? I finally have brought my wife to understand that when I say sudo! then she cannot deny me anything,
If you can bring up your children the same way you should have no problem with it.