openSUSE 12.1 Part 1

Well, I checked the site about 8 minutes ago and it was there. Seems like it was officially released at 06:12 this morning (UTC-7). I'm downloading it now, and will burn it and stuff it in the laptop bag. I'll do all the testing later.

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Okay, I haven't really found anything different from RC2, but I did find a couple things.

To get my Bluetooth to work, the wireless has to be turned on. And I can use the function key for turning the wireless on and off to do so. And for some reason, I can't use my Bluetooth mouse on boot until sometime after wireless is turned on. For some weird reason, my trackpad got permanently disabled which didn't help the situation beforehand.

12.1 also did not ship with GRUB2 as I read somewhere in the openSUSE pages (either in the news or Wiki), but I can't find it and I don't feel like finding it. I really wonder why, since GRUB2 is so much easier to use.

I installed GRUB2 (the package in openSUSE), and then did an install of it. I guess I forgot to update-grub and when I rebooted, I was left at the CLI for GRUB2. Seeing how I'm not an expert at it, I can't get back into 12.1 to do so. My only two options are to either (1) reinstall 12.1 and re-update or (2) attempt to fix it with 12.1 live. I think the first option is the more viable one, since it doesn't really take too long.

Anyway, good thing I used a spare hard drive, since I would not have been happy to not be able to boot into anything. More to come.

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As I've thought about it, I don't really want to deal with the troubles of installing GRUB2 (at least for the computers that have multiple OSs on it anyway. I may just reinstall it on the testing drive for Triela, and see what happens, but I will need to test it on Mei Ren to see if I can flip the top screen upside down... Then again, I really don't want to enable wireless on every single boot, so I might just do this testing out of curiosity (and boredom).

Lie-chan is really the only viable (and "partial") install of 12.1 I could do, provided that I keep Ubuntu for GRUB2, since Lie-chan is hard-wired to the wireless bridge.

Anyway, off to finish a few things and continuing the experimentation.

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So I got done with all the experimentation.... Turns out I can't use update-grub (in any format) to properly populate the grub.cfg file... So definitely a no on GRUB2 in 12.1

Screen orientation still works just fine. One thing I noticed with the window previewer is that each screen has its own space, and you can move the windows between screens. Cool! I'm pretty sure it was already there, but I didn't really think much about it and didn't really test it out then.

One of the other things I noticed is that the "menu bar" only resides on one of the screens (main screen) when in a side-by-side configuration (and I'm assuming the same for the notifications bar).

Okay, here comes the weird part. When I booted into 12.1 on Mei Ren, wireless was automatically on. WTF? I'm going to safely assume that it has either has something to do with Triela or laptops in general (so either it's something with Triela+12.1 or 12.1 disables it by default for laptops).

Which means I can easily migrate to 12.1 for openSUSE only computers (Mei Ren and the jukebox). I could also migrate for Lie-chan, but I'm still very disappointed that 12.1 did not have GRUB2 as default.

I realized that I completely spaced the HDD from my friend, so I'm actually gonna have to wait longer to do the installation test for both Mei Ren and the jukebox, since I don't want to kill the existing 11.3 install if I don't have to.

I also tested 1080p on Mei Ren with 12.1 and VLC again. Nothing different in quality... Well, I did forget to turn the "GPU acceleration" on again, but I don't think it makes that much of a difference.

Well, I think that's it until I get the HDD for easier testing (well... easier roll-back).