Since Triela is where I've done the bulk of the testing, this will be where I post some of the new things I've found.
One of the first things I noticed was the minimality of the applications in the list, being only 3 pages - then again, I'm used to having roughly 5-7 pages of applications - with the third page only having one entry in my case. The next thing I noticed was an application called "Software", and after opening it, I remembered that the development team was making something similar in concept to Ubuntu's Software Centre. I disregarded it for that time being, as I was only poking around to see if anything else had changed.
Another thing I noticed was that the YaST2 modules are now in its own folder (labelled as "YaST2 Modules" LOL), and thought that it was nice to have them grouped into a folder, since it used to be mixed into the other applications.
The tweak tool still resides in the Settings window, like it did with the Beta (I think?), but instead of it being under the "System" section, it is now under the "Personal" section.
After that, I went ahead and installed it onto the test-bed partition, opting for ext4 instead of BTRFS, and opting out of GRUB 2 installation (I'd rather have GRUB 2 from 13.1 handle the entries). Once installation was done, I gave the disk to the Dell for testing.
I began setting up the installation for testing by installing programs (k3b, Filezilla, etc) that I normally would have installed, and once I thought I had everything installed, I went to set up the input methods. I then realized I had to re-log, but I decided to opt for a reboot instead.
Before I forget, I had also installed the unico and murrine theme engines and then put my standard GTK theme to use, having to close all the windows for the changes to appear correctly, and I was surprised to see that it also applied in a different way to the GNOME 3 windows that have the title bar integrated into the window (certain buttons became smaller).
Once rebooted, I tried to open Filezilla, but it refused to open, so I used terminal instead and was met with dependency errors. After fixing the first error, I was met with a second error, and while fixing that, zypper told me nothing provides "Firefox- .noarch", and after a bit of searching in zypper, I couldn't find what it was referring to, so I went with the solution to deinstall "Firefox-.noarch". I was then met with a bunch of other packages that needed to be installed, which was probably all the other dependencies that somehow got locked by "Firefox-.noarch", and let zypper run its installation course; afterwards, I was able to open Filezilla just fine, and Firefox (MozillaFirefox is the package name) opened just fine, so "Firefox-.noarch" is just a mystery to me. Upon further searching, I found that it belongs to a program "Firefox", which doesn't exist and is not removable because of that.
The application animation when pressing the "Show Applications" button began to work properly afterwards, so something was installed from the repository that wasn't originally part of the live disk.
The next thing I did was add the repositories for Packman and libdvdcss and install the corresponding packages for multi-media and restricted formats, preforming the distribution upgrade to the Packman repository afterwards. Unfortunately, following the guide at opensuse-guide.org didn't work, as I couldn't play my test MKV file in VLC. I've also tried the one-click solution from opensuse-community.org, but now that I think about it, it didn't do anything different compared to the opensuse-guide.org option. I'm gonna have to just hope that caf4926 from the official openSUSE forums releases a guide for 13.2, since their guides are flawless when I follow them.
That said, I'm actually not going to do any testing with Mei-chan, since the outcome was a bit disappointing with VLC. For now, I'll keep an eye out for caf4926's guide (if/when it comes out) and stick with 13.1 as the stable install.
One thing that came to mind is that with the 12 series of openSUSE, the first version (12.1) I didn't install, but the second and third versions I installed, but in this case, 13.1 works quite well for me, and 13.2 doesn't work that well for me, so it's certainly different than it used to be.
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