I tried getting in touch with my heritage and using OpenSUSE but it really doesn’t click with me. From the installer to the whoke YaST thing, others love it but I’m just a bad German.
I also don’t own a car or watch football so this tracks
I know you kid and I’m sure you a good German but:
SUSE started in 1994 according to Wikipedia. At the time, it was one of the only good and stable Linux distribution that you could reliably install anywhere without tweaking configuration files all over the place.
IIRC, all the previous distributions have been obsoleted once Ubuntu was available.
IIRC, all the previous distributions have been obsoleted once Ubuntu was available.
I mean,yes and no? At the time, Ubuntu made itself an extremely prolific and easy to start linux experience. The adaptations that ubuntu presented have been replicated in several other distros now, and Canonical have made questionable choices to the point where Mint seems like THE beginner/minimal config distro, the things that are universally acceptable from Ubuntu are being rolled back into debian, and mint itself is trying to go for a debian based version which is basically the same level of friendliness.
While the packages are a shitshow (missing depends, etc. (Edit: I had multiple problems with shotcut because of this and grew frustrated enough that I just use the Appimage now)), the TW is updated very often and is really stable, it’s on a level with fedora. Also the default firewall config is very strict, which is good.
Yes, the Yast installer is terrible and I had to do my encryption with ext4 (instead of BTRFS) manually in terminal, because the install would somehow break everything.
It’s a mixed bag, but as a disorganized person who doesn’t do regular updates and still likes to have new packages, I like it.
The installer’s partitioner and package selection can get a bit complicated, but imo it’s a pretty guided experience. You also don’t have to use YaST on OpenSUSE, it’s just a nice alternative to having to copy commands from some random tutorial, and it’s also being replaced: YAST is now Agama, Cockpit and Myrlyn on openSUSE
I tried getting in touch with my heritage and using OpenSUSE but it really doesn’t click with me. From the installer to the whoke YaST thing, others love it but I’m just a bad German.
I also don’t own a car or watch football so this tracks
I know you kid and I’m sure you a good German but:
SUSE started in 1994 according to Wikipedia. At the time, it was one of the only good and stable Linux distribution that you could reliably install anywhere without tweaking configuration files all over the place.
IIRC, all the previous distributions have been obsoleted once Ubuntu was available.
I mean,yes and no? At the time, Ubuntu made itself an extremely prolific and easy to start linux experience. The adaptations that ubuntu presented have been replicated in several other distros now, and Canonical have made questionable choices to the point where Mint seems like THE beginner/minimal config distro, the things that are universally acceptable from Ubuntu are being rolled back into debian, and mint itself is trying to go for a debian based version which is basically the same level of friendliness.
While the packages are a shitshow (missing depends, etc. (Edit: I had multiple problems with shotcut because of this and grew frustrated enough that I just use the Appimage now)), the TW is updated very often and is really stable, it’s on a level with fedora. Also the default firewall config is very strict, which is good.
Yes, the Yast installer is terrible and I had to do my encryption with ext4 (instead of BTRFS) manually in terminal, because the install would somehow break everything.
It’s a mixed bag, but as a disorganized person who doesn’t do regular updates and still likes to have new packages, I like it.
The installer’s partitioner and package selection can get a bit complicated, but imo it’s a pretty guided experience. You also don’t have to use YaST on OpenSUSE, it’s just a nice alternative to having to copy commands from some random tutorial, and it’s also being replaced: YAST is now Agama, Cockpit and Myrlyn on openSUSE