I am an old user of SUSE and I love Leap 16

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Hi everyone

I am an old Suse user - first installed Suse 7 when I bought a boxed version of Suse back in 2004. That boxed version came with a thick manual! I then moved onto Suse 9.1, then later installed Opensuse on my laptop - a Dell Latitude. I remember how it was a mission to get Wifi going back then on the laptop - using NDISwrapper! I unfortunately had no time from around 2007 to use Linux due to starting a business that ran Windows software. I was a lot more ideological back then, now? I use the best tool for the job.

I installed Opensuse because I was bored, but I wanted to see how the system would run on Linux. Called me impressed! No more struggles to fix hardware drivers. It worked straight out of the box.

I installed Leap onto my laptop and frankly I am hugely impressed! I have HP with a Ryzen 5 and 16 GB of RAM - I did an install to dual boot with Windows 11.

My installation on a 71GB partition with KDE. It took me a little time to figure out the installer - it is not obvious at first. But once I figured out how to find how to run the partitioner, it was easy after that.

Installation was snappy and the system booted up straight away and I liked KDE Plasma immediately. I did have to google to find out how to add repositories and install software - using Myrlyn and from there it was straightforward. Added Packman to install some software.

I also installed Steam, wine, and then managed to install Battle.Net and Starcraft 2 - the game runs better on here than on Windows! I like that I can connect my phone to the OS, I am impressed with that. There is a lot to like here.

I do miss YAST2 - it was a great part of Opensuse, but I understand why it is discontinued.

I do think that I will dispense with Windows as my main system and use Opensuse for the foreseeable future, only running Windows when I need to.

My one big criticism of the installation process is the real lack of documentation. It is not great and needs to be improved. I get that it is a matter of man power to improve this.

I am looking forward to using Opensuse daily. It is enjoyable. My one wish is that a better email client could be installed.

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How would you compare it to debian when it comes to stables?

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Hm… there is this:

(linked from the openSUSE doc hub)

And of course the Leap 16.0 release notes.

What else are you missing?

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Can’t say, because I haven’t used Debian in yonks. Always liked OpenSuse

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When I was installing, I didn’t exactly go looking at the time. I still think the documentation is not great. I also found the release notes to be less than comprehensive. For me, keep it simple - I don’t want to go trawling for stuff. I mention that manual I got with the boxed version of SUSE 7 two decades ago - it was good enough to help me install Linux for the first time.

i found what I was looking for in Agama - but it took time - the interface was less than intinuitive.

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Agree with “not intuitive”. I tried it before and discussed in this thread.

To add: If you are installing using “nomodeset” the interface doesn’t really fit on the screen that makes it even hard to visualize and the mouse becomes not very responsive. And the trashcan oh
I didn’t noticed it and thought malcolmlewis was just trowing me a joke. :innocent:

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I’ve done all my Leap 16.0 installs from my primary desktop via login to agama.local (you could use a phone too…) after setting an installer root password.

One install had an Nvidia GPU, didn’t even worry about the nomodeset…

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That’s interesting. I had my two eyes operated and sometimes struggled with graphics and decided I should use a bigger monitor and end up using my 65" UHD tv. With the nomodeset it gives really a low resolution that I am struggling to navigate the entire area of the screen. :roll_eyes:

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@conram See https://agama-project.github.io/docs/devel/live_iso#injecting-the-default-password-into-the-iso-image