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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Latest Tumbleweed snapshot has a Mesa bug that causes 50% chance of black screen after login. A few weeks before that Plymouth was broken causing >1 minute boot times. To solve these issues users need to learn how to rollback updates from command line, so it's certainly not a good replacement for Windows.

I know it's rolling release distro but you can't claim "it's rolling release so bugs are expected and it's your fault for using it" and "it's betest and stablest system ever, everyone should use it" at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is this fakenews or is my tumbleweed install at home hardened... any TW users here heard of this?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The article doesn't mention or recommend Tumbleweed as far as I can see.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Most people don’t give much thought to their operating system, but with Windows 10 support ending in October 2025, many will start searching for alternatives...

I predict most of them are going to waste a ton of money and buy a Window 11 device. Or waste a shit-ton of money and buy a Apple device. Or just say "fuck it" and keep Windows 10 (that's what my mom will surely do. I stopped caring, as my dad still wants to use his even older Windows 8 shitbox and my mom 100% agrees to this).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

or think they're smart by using a script to bypass the win 11 hardware restrictions

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (6 children)

People actually do this shit? Bruh. Why jump through hoops installing Windows 11 when installing Linux (the ones with graphical installer) is much easier and much less of a hassle? smh

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What sets opensuse apart from distros like debbie?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

the sheer amount of guis

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For me it’s that Tumblweed at least uses BTRFS by default, so rolling back to a previous snapshot is a breeze if needed.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The number of data loss stories with btrfs 💀

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Are there any actual controlled comparative studies of filesystems, rather than just anecdotes from the internet?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Most of those are related to RAID 5/6 afaik

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