It seems to me that many software installs that didn’t go smoothly in OpenSuse, got better as I re-evaluated it later. Perhaps it was because I got more use to OpenSuse’s quirks. Even after being out for a couple months, VM Virtualbox seems to be a pain to install on OpenSuse, or at least more work than I want to devote to it. OpenSuse’s online software said it had it, but it appeared to only be a 11 meg front end to Virtualbox. I saw one article explaining how to install it. However for me there was a pre-req. These days I try to avoid anything that causes me to track down pre-reqs. I’ve been through tracking down pre-reqs and tracking down pre-reqs for those pre-reqs, it’s not fun or challenging to me anymore. Virtualization has become an important feature to me. So once again was re-evaluating OpenSuse as a backup distro. However, I was listening to Linux Action Show review of OpenSuse 13.2 and they mentioned that OpenSuse had Xen and KVM Virtualization solutions in Yast. Silly me forgetting that many times there is more than one way to do something in Linux. So I tried Xen first because it was on the list first. Didn’t like that it seemed to require a different boot from Grub (maybe because of a different Kernel). So I tried KVM next which didn’t require a different boot or modify Grub. Installed Xubuntu 14.01 on both and both had the same messed up characters/icons on the menu bar. I couldn’t click on the network or volume icons and could hardly read the clock.