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    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    [–] mafbar 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Seems to be an underrated choice. How's it going so far, using Tumbleweed?

    [–] AlpacaChariot 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I tried this once, it had some weird default settings when it came to privileges needed to connect to WiFi, printers etc. Normally polkit would be preconfigured on a desktop to let the user do these things without giving the root password but not opensuse for some reason! Maybe things have changed now.

    [–] mafbar 1 points 1 year ago

    Hopefully! Certain things like WiFi or printers, I feel should work out-of-the-box without manual setup.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I never managed to break it. While all the *buntu distros tended to just fall apart after a while.

    Also you can update after 3 months and zypper will happily process the 6800 changed packages.

    Finally it has the best KDE out there, so it was a natural choice.

    [–] mafbar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Sounds great! Tumbleweed has always sounded like a stable rolling-release distro, kind of strange that it never got the attention like Arch or Arch-based distros.

    [–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The whole OpenSuSE/SuSE community seems to be on the quiet side for some reason. I never really understood why either. It's one of the old traditional distributions that's doing a lot of stuff in the background, but nobody ever hears or talks about it. They even have fun songs.

    Maybe it's because it's based in Europe (although I would have seen that as a bonus point)?

    I don't even know if it's very common in the enterprise world, I've never actually even seen it there, although I've seen lots of Redhat. But according to Wikipedia, it's out there.

    [–] mafbar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I've only meddled with openSUSE a little bit but I suspect it's due to several reasons. Firstly, perhaps the lack of marketing. You hear news about Ubuntu and Fedora and NixOS and stuff, but never really about openSUSE, I think? Maybe they do promotions but I don't know about them that much. As you said, they do a lot of stuff but in the background. Perhaps they're really more of a technical distribution, for sysadmins and some users?

    [–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    They often tend to sell it as a distribution for developers. for some reason. I don't write much code any more and just use it (tumbleweed) as my main system for general use. I never really noticed it being any different from any other operating system. You just install whatever you need. In my case, I take notes, edit photos, play games from Steam, and do the usual Internet stuff. Mostly what most users do.

    [–] mafbar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I see. Yea, someone I know has used Tumbleweed before and it seems fine. Stable and solid. Just out of curiosity, what Steam games do you play? Do you use Proton?

    [–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If you run steam in Linux, you're using proton.

    Currently, I play Deep Rock Galactic, Insurgency Sandstorm, Cyberpunk, sometimes Squad, but I haven't had the time for a while.
    Games I have to catch up with Generation Zero, Disco Elysium.

    All of those work without much fuss.

    [–] mafbar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] AnUnusualRelic 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    The current one is a Ryzen 9 3900X with a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti running OpenSuSE Tumbleweed.

    [–] mafbar 1 points 1 year ago

    I see! Sounds fun. Maybe I'll switch to openSUSE Tumbleweed. Just maybe.