Opensuse TW all day every day
Congratulations to the openSUSE team/contributors for helping maintain this wonderful project! 🎉
Me and OpenSUSE share a birthday, and a birth year as well! Woohoo! Happy Birthday, OpenSUSE!
I think I was around 13 years old, our home family computer had Windows ME on it. It broke all the time. I think I may have tried Ubuntu first on that PC but then came across SUSE and decided to replace windows with that because the KDE interface at the time (was horrendously 90's looking) but felt more like windows. I think I ran that on the computer for a year or so before my father made me put XP on it when that was released.
It was my first real foray into Linux and it would be many moons until I ran it full time as an adult but I have a soft spot for it.
Edit: I think my memory is off because Ubuntu wouldn't have been around back then... Must have tried Ubuntu later or maybe I was a bit older. In any case it was SUSE that sparked my interest in alternative operating systems, and probably why I still prefer KDE.
The problem with openSUSE Tumbleweed I have is that so far I've never been able to install it. For all other Linux distros I can just get the ISO and use virt-manager to create a VM. But openSUSE never manages to boot. Any ideas why? I'd love to try it.
Edit: I'm trying it again now and i made it into the installer now
Edit2: installed it and am trying it out. Looks good on first glance but some packages that i'd really need to use it as a daily driver appear not to be present, like gnome-shell-extension-appindicator or gnome-shell-extension-caffeine
I thought you are supposed to install extensions through the web interface, not the command line
Well if they are in the repos i assume it be less likely to have incompatibilites when updates happen?
Tried it out once and really impressive with the rollback functionality (Snapper, btrfs) and killer YaST. Fedora is my main OS for working now but will definitely consider to go back to Suse one day.
I used OpenSUSE for a few months, both Leap and Tumbleweed, and the system itself was mostly snappy and stable, overall a pretty solid distro. My one real pain point using it was that I somewhat frequently ran into the problems of either dependency hell or update de-syncs between the main repos and Packman (which I needed due to not shipping with codecs I needed). That said, it surprises me that OpenSUSE doesn't get more attention as a stable, high quality distro. They're content to do their own thing, and they do it well.
This is the same reason why I don't use opensuse or fedora. Tried it out on an older machine and the dependency issues due to using packman/rpmfusion packages for media codecs really bugged me. Which is a shame considering how good the rest of the experience using opensuse is.
Also I have endeavourOS setup to my liking on my current device and I do not want to go through all that again.
I have been meaning to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a while. Perhaps this is the oman that I needed.
Suse is older than 18.
The first version appeared in early 1994, making SUSE one of the oldest existing commercial distributions.
Neat! SUSE was technically my first Linux distro I installed probably circa 2006 via 3 or 4 CDs on some old donated hardware. I played around with it for a bit but never really dove in. A few years later I tried Ubuntu from a "demo" CD I got in Linux magazine and outside of a bit of experimental distro hopping I've been mostly on Ubuntu for the last 17ish years. Just about 3 weeks ago, I decided to install openSUSE again. Was split between tumbleweed and Leap, but decided to go with Leap (15.5). It's a bit different coming from a .deb based system, but I'm digging it so far. Kind of crazy that the build I installed so long ago was probably one of the first releases of SUSE.
