Where has this distro been all my life?
- Rolling release or point release
- Uses Snapper, an application that lets you rollback updates that break your system
- Installer lets you pick which DE and packages to add to minimize bloat
- Optional atomic updates
- Uses Yast, a GUI that lets you easily edit system config files
Where has this distro been all my life?
Bentley Jones
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Carter Brown
Zachary Martin
Yeah where?
Ian Adams
Oh, that's not even remotely all that's good about it.
- patched Firefox to use filepicker with thumbnails
- patched GTK so it correctly scales according to monitor's DPI (Qt did this right since forever)
- package versions locked to repositories by default so you don't have to pin every single package like an idiot
- both YaST and zypper prompt with options to resolve package conflicts
- can customize installation down to single packages because the installer is so awesome
Seriously, OpenSUSE is the best distro all around.
Eli Martin
I'll probably switch to it if they switch to using Cancel instead of Abort in the UI
Parker Hernandez
My CPU is running full advance in idle, how can I retard it? (Kernel 4.4.126-48-default)
Lincoln Smith
Nein.
Nathan Powell
Installing texlive in opensuse means adding more than 2000 packages to your system. There isn't even menulibre in the repos. What the actual fuck. Even solus has menulibre. An anonymous distro that was born 5 minutes ago. If you use openSUSE, well, welcome to 2006.
Dylan Nguyen
And yes, it doesn't boost also.
If I use vanilla kernel - wifi doesn't work, but CPU idles as it should. Interesting fact is that CPU heats more, but consumes less electricity according to powertop, and it seems to be true...
On Tumbleweeds 4.15+ kernel everything works, but I don't like how it occasionally breaks my WiFi each update.
>If you use openSUSE, well, welcome to 2006.
Like something bad.
Evan Myers
>how can I retard it
Browse to r***it, /v/ or /b/ for about 20 minutes, that should do it.
Jack Russell
No, it won't.
Jayden Green
Is there any way to get it to render fonts well?
The defaults are TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE, awful, disgusting, "I'd rather have Windows Cleartype" shit.
Ryan Lewis
You at least have a German sense of humour, that should help in using a German os
Landon Parker
sudo zypper ar -f -c ftp.gwdg.de
sudo zypper install freetype
Add packman repo and install freetype, then go to YaST, fonts, enable subpixel rendering, select slight hinting, and your sub pixel order and lcdlight filter.
Joshua Bell
I have wonderful experience with TW, boot time on my ssd was close to 2 mins, after every update I had to rollback because some shit broke and Yast needed only 15 seconds to open....German enginering at its finest
Jeremiah Sanchez
Thank you very much. I guess I'll give Tumbleweed another chance then.
By the way, do you think it makes sense to use OpenSuse without KDE? It feels like the Gnome integration is as lazy as can be.
Also, why slight hinting?
Liam Phillips
Tried OpenSUSE with GNOME few months ago. Don't even think about it. Go for KDE or install something else.
Justin Stewart
You can do it on Leap as well, just change repo to Leap.
>Also, why slight hinting?
Because on my monitor it looks more readable. Feel free to play with settings.
Indeed, best KDE support, yet probably worst Gnome support.
Benjamin Miller
I was disto hopping for longer time then most of you fags are on the internet and I have to say OP speaks the truth. Leap is best distro out there now. Best use of best DE + stability.
Brandon Williams
is tumbleweed any good? is leap software as outdated as debian?
Owen Reed
I've tried tumbleweed on x240 and I had some small hw issues ( not worst then with other distros f.g. fedora ). Leap from the other hand works 100% OOB. Not sure are the packages are "fresh". Shit works so I don't care.
Dominic Richardson
Has been really unstable for me whenever I used it.
Might have just been bad luck or my fault, but I'll stick to Manjaro for now.
Hunter Rivera
I'm using Tumbleweed right now and so far no issues, except that GPU passthrough broke with kernel 4.16 but I'm sure it'll get fixed eventually.
Matthew Gonzalez
The only thing that Opensuse sucks in opposite to Ubuntu is the font rendering. Holly shit, it sucks hard.
I love opensuse but i cant use it if my eyes cries blood every time i have to see the screen.
Dylan Richardson
sudo zypper ar -f -c ftp.gwdg.de
sudo zypper install freetype
And enable subpixel rendering.
Daniel Wilson
any screenshot of the result? I test lot of solutions i found on internet and none of those results were as good as ubuntu font rendering system
Ian Rodriguez
Aiden Davis
Works on my machine (LG MacBook Air 13" LCD 128 PPI)
Luke Torres
build.opensuse.org
Use the ubuntu fontconfig and rendering libraries
Blake Martinez
>install nvidia driver
>randomly breaks after reboot
>try to reinstall driver
>kernel gets removed, can't boot
And into the trash it goes.
Joseph Jenkins
Blame novidia.
Hudson Wilson
Thank you user! Tomorrow im going to try it ^-^
Jose Rodriguez
>atomic updates
Liam Gomez
>using opensuse when fedora exists
Brandon Carter
so you recommend using fedora gnome? cuz fedora kde sucks dick
Brody Evans
>using fedora when opensuse exists
Ryder Brown
What other distro allows changing 'stable' to 'rolling' without breaking system?
OpenSUSE is just superior piece of German engineering, like VAG, where you can enable shit with VCDS.
Carter Thomas
>Downloads an additional 3GB of bloat on first update due to patterns
>broken package management system, specifically pakman or whatever the fuck it is for multimedia, leading to broken media capabitlities
>shit will break in a month anyway
Julian Martinez
>both YaST and zypper prompt with options to resolve package conflicts
No other distro gets package conflicts so congrats
Christian Robinson
>Downloads an additional 3GB of bloat on first update due to patterns
OpenSUSE was never intended to be minimal.
If you want to be minimal - you can disable this during install.
>broken package management system, specifically pakman or whatever the fuck it is for multimedia, leading to broken media capabitlities
paKman is in arch, here is zypper.
Yes, due to patents reasons they don't ship it with 'freetype' and media codecs, but there is a paCKman repo, that has all this, and nobody had really complained that it is broken or what.
They even have 'One-Click install' feature on their website, so you don't need even to add repo manually.
The only shit is always breaking is kernel related broadcom drivers. But it is on all distriburions. Solution is simple, add kernel-headers and gcc stuff to install official wl driver.
>shit will break in a month anyway
Werks with my hand and on my machine. On the other hand, Ubuntu broke (without any ability to fix it without spending too much time) after third update.
What about Slackware?
Nolan Russell
The installer literally lets you pick which packages to install. It's your own fault for adding all the extra applications to your system. Packman is not even an official repo. Nearly all distros break from updates but few have a system in place to rollback updates or support atomic updates like OpenSUSE.
Debian stable does.
Kayden Price
>but few have a system in place to rollback
Only if you use BtrFs, that is recommended by default.
I use Ext4, I don't have this option, but it kindly keeps old kernels.
David Torres
Bull. ie. shARtCH is full of em..
Andrew Murphy
Btrfs does a lot more than keep old kernels. It keeps snapshots of your root partition so if an update in something like KDE breaks, you can rollback to the previous snapshot until a newer update fixes the problem. Snapshots are made automatically everytime you update. If you're worried about data loss, remember that the home partition is on XFS.
Hudson Myers
used for a very short period
seems good to me
but >muh bloat