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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I love opensuse if nothing else for the great mascot and the very talented artists who do their wallpapers, logos, and splashes. Also their open source font is what I daily drive on my machines! It is very nice!

Sadly they have a small team I think compared to other major distros. Their microOS team I think is just 2 or 3 people.

I have both Kalpa and bazzite and for me, bazzite just works better in almost every case and their encryption scheme and rollback method fits my needs better. But Kalpa is very usable if you don't game. Otherwise some hours of work getting steam flatpak working correctly.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Been using it for a few months now and it's great. I haven't had any major problems with it. YAST is an awesome tool so I rarely had to use console commands to change/fix stuff. And filesystem snapshots are very well integrated so that one time I did fuck up and the system wouldn't boot (it was entirely my fault) it was very easy to roll back changes.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

currently daily-driving their Aeon flavour. it may be the best Linux-for-beginners i've ever seen. the installer has no options at all and just overwrites the disk with a preloaded partition which means installation takes literally five minutes. it's auto-updating, immutable, snapshots itself so it can roll back when something breaks, and basically only allows Flatpaks. on first boot you get an empty desktop with browser, app store, notes app, and calculator, and those are literally the only user applications on the machine. very refreshing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That sounds really cool! Do you know if they include GPU drivers (NVDIA) or how you'd install them?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

SuSE was a blessing for me in the 1990s when you couldn't just download huge amount of data over the Internet. But I could walk into my local computer store and buy a 8 CD package with two big handbooks for 70 Deutschmarks.

Long story short: Without SuSE I might not be a software developer today, so I'm thankful even though I prefer other distros today. ๐ŸฆŽ

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

opensuse is awesome. you can choose your mirror here as well: https://mirrors.opensuse.org/

[โ€“] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

A: I will always support SUSE, even if I don't use it myself.

B: Any Linux can be considered an international effort.

C: If you want to avoid American evil corp distros, skip RedHat (IBM) and Oracle. Maybe avoid Ubuntu and Pop!_OS too, but they are not in the same Evil Cyberpunk Megacorp level as IBM and Oracle.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Having worked on UnitedLinux, I'm okay if I never touch SuSE again. There are so many other options out there, still, that I can have the better distro format and still avoid SuSE. Yay!

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Love the wallpaper and logo!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I quite like that theme, what is it? It doesnโ€™t look like the default Leap one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm a long-time OpenSuSE user, so I heartily recommend this! It leans more towards the professional side, so probably not for beginners, IMHO.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 93 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IMHO any Linux distribution will be a good change from Windows and Mac if you are trying to divest from US products.

Even if they are not european, they are open source.

[โ€“] [email protected] 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Linux Foundation might be based in California, but I still very much consider it to be Finnish. And Torvalds is, thankfully, very much on the anti-fascist side of the spectrum.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Luckily the Linux Foundation stuff (having to obey US sanctions on Russian companies) affected those specific devs and not really users or anyone else.

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