EnricoGalli, I tried to use openSuse and to me it seemed a lot slower than Linux Mint, and this was for a newer computer with an AMD processor and 2 GB of memory, could it have been that I got some form of "developer's" version or something? the install tok a very long time, as opposed to when I installed Linuc Mint the installation completed in under 30 minutes.....wonder what that was about? maybe Suse just had a whole lot of software to install?...