Before my dad passed away ( he was using win 7 64 bit )
i had disabled Auto update and set it to NOTIFY ONLY
when there were updates to install and let ME decide on when to install them
well MS stealth changed that ( likely using the "security update " exception )
installed updates WHILE he was running Excel
( working on there churches tax reports )
he entered a value into a cell and hit < enter >
the < enter > instead clicked "yes" on the hidden "reboot NOW" window hidden under the spreed sheet .
luckily Excel auto saved the last state before rebooting
Man was he PISSED OFF
OpenSUSE 12 is nice , i like 12.2 and in the next 3 to 6 months i will be upgrading to 12.3
Now some say Novell " went to the DARK SIDE of the force" with there Microsoft licensing / patent agreement
( there is some "anger" in the opensource community about that )
But there is also some targeted at Canonical and Ubuntu for moving away from the " Standard Linux Base "
Now if you install opensuse 12.3 you will likely want to use the KDE desktop
Gnome3 is , in my opinion , is unusable
moving from windows to Linux will take some " getting used to "
things are a bit different
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OpenSUSE is not perfect it to has an "auto update" BUT and this is a very big difference
it DOSE stay set to notify only
my one gripe is disabling the "pop up" hints
this might be fixed in 12.3 but right now is is a bit hard to disable
( you mouse over a icon or menu item and a "hint" pop's up )