Otherwise a suggestion for Novell is to further develope WineTOOLS a free GUI frontend for Wine then package it with SUSE Linux. Even though Novell packages free Wine from with SUSE Linux I believe it would help the commercial version of their distribution to include Cedega (See ) a commercial version of Wine designed specifically for games.
There’s other reasons but I’m sure everyone understands my point.Īs for games which I’m sure some readers are thinking about understand game developers are now porting more games to run natively on Linux. Another reason is lower TCO as Microsoft Windows cost more than SUSE Linux and offers little to the consumer with out spending even more money on third party software such as AV and spyware software to keep Windows secure. One reason I hope for this is I do believe consumers would like to have more options when configuring systems. Hopefully in the near future we’ll see both Dell and HP offering SUSE Linux not only for home consumers but also for the enterprise. So if I have a hardware issue then it would not be unreasonable to contact the vendor such as Dell and if it’s OS related Novell technical support is available. For me while it would be ideal to go to one vendor for all my issues I’m also used to having multiple support options (ie: hardware, OS, applications). Though they both replied the same that at this time while considering SUSE Linux the issue is either to have technical support related to the OS directed to Novell or to have Dell and HP handle OS issues.
I found out from both Dell and HP that even though neither offers SUSE Linux on their home consumer line of laptops and desktops replies back from the presales department confirmed warrenty support is not void if a customer decides to install SUSE Linux.