Okay fellas. I’m back. I lost my job about 13 months ago due to my disabilities. I ended up loosing 75 lbs, because the pain would cause me to get sick. Nothing really helped. Not morphine, and not dilaudid. I had surgery on my neck Oct 13, 2014. After the surgery, my neck healed up fine, but the pain was as bad as ever. 95% of my days were spent laying down, since being vertical caused the most stress on my neck. In this time I was primarily in Kubuntu. Nice system. Easy to get software. In the last couple days, my neck stopped hurting. For the first time since the surgery I was able to go with out my hard collar. I also tried Netrunner. Nice system. It has real potential. Netrunner rolling is Arch. So if you’re looking for an easy to install Arch system, Netrunner Rolling might be for you. Netrunner also has another iso where it’s based off of Kubuntu. One distro where they have two different releases. It’s an interesting idea. I’ve had Netrunner Rolling on for about a day. Pacman just aint for me. I guess I just missed openSUSE, so I’m coming back.
Nice to hear from you again Jonathan. I’m glad the pain has subsided. That can be a real show stopper with day-to-day living.
On Sun 22 Feb 2015 11:06:01 PM CST, Jonathan R wrote:
Okay fellas. I’m back. I lost my job about 13 months ago due to my
disabilities. I ended up loosing 75 lbs, because the pain would cause me
to get sick. Nothing really helped. Not morphine, and not dilaudid. I
had surgery on my neck Oct 13, 2014. After the surgery, my neck healed
up fine, but the pain was as bad as ever. 95% of my days were spent
laying down, since being vertical caused the most stress on my neck. In
this time I was primarily in Kubuntu. Nice system. Easy to get software.
In the last couple days, my neck stopped hurting. For the first time
since the surgery I was able to go with out my hard collar. I also tried
Netrunner. Nice system. It has real potential. Netrunner rolling is
Arch. So if you’re looking for an easy to install Arch system, Netrunner
Rolling might be for you. Netrunner also has another iso where it’s
based off of Kubuntu. One distro where they have two different releases.
It’s an interesting idea. I’ve had Netrunner Rolling on for about a day.
Pacman just aint for me. I guess I just missed openSUSE, so I’m coming
back.
Hi Jon
Welcome back 
Good to hear your feeling better
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Thank you for the warm welcomes. The pain was definitely debilitating. So yes, it is good that it’s gone…At least from my neck. My spinal cord in my neck was compressed more than 50%. Anyway, it’s good to “see” familiar “faces”, as it were.
Greetings friend. And welcome.
Life sure can be tough. Lets hope you keep on improving…
Life goes on…welcome back!
Thank you. Life can knock me down, but I just get back up. Even when I was pretty much confined to laying down, I still had my mind. I was always free in my mind.
Wow, welcome back. I hope your situation will improve over time.
Sorry to hear about your experiences Jonation. Good to see you’re getting better and hope you continue to improve!
Welcome back Jonathan,
Glad to read you are feeling better. In the past (~10 years ago, just around the time I first became a forum moderator (in one of the old pre-merge forums)), I was bed bedridden for up to a week at a time due to a bad back, which was devastating to me, and no where near what you have gone through more recently. So I am very happy to read you are improving.
I think that is definitely a very hard way to go about losing 75 pounds !
Best wishes and take it easy on your self as part of the climbing back.
lee
Thank you all for the warm welcomes. Regardless of the distro I finally settle on, this will always be home. You guys are my 127.0.0.1.
I still find myself restless in regards to the distro. I like a lot of things about openSUSE, but there are some things that could be considered as opportunities for growth. In the past, others have mentioned these areas and they were rebuffed. You all know I tend to go crazy with repositories and have had about 100 repositories before. So knowledge of software and where to find it isn’t an issue. I like the openSUSE menus and YaST, but the software…There is more software available to Ubuntu users. In a distro like Gentoo or Sabayon Linux one can add dpkg and apt and synaptic if they want. I’ve never done it, but it can be done. Gentoo and Sabayon Linux also have better wrappers for debian packages if you don’t install dpkg, apt and synaptic. I don’t think the problem is straight openSUSE. I think it’s more of an rpm problem. The thing is, I have very specific needs. You saw one of them, as we went on about keyboard layout. That’s not an openSUSE issue, nor is it a Linux issue. Honestly, I have more fonts available to me in Ubuntu land. I can imagine some of you saying; “Well you can download and install any font you want”. That’s true. But if that’s the case, why have repositories? Do you see what I’m saying here? I also have other issues, where I’m sure if I opened up threads they could be “solved”, but in Ubuntu land, it’s not even an issue. Source distros really have an advantage as they can work with anything, such as apk, deb or rpm. I do like Sabayon Linux because of its duality. It’s both a source distro and a binary distro. I’m pretty much at the point where I’m not really wanting to play around anymore. I want a distro that works. Maybe the distro openSUSE aint for me anymore, but that doesn’t mean openSUSE is a bad distro. Maybe it’s time to re-evaluate package management. Right now, the dominant packages and package management systems are deb and apk. The landscape in Linux is changing, and it’s changing in favor of Ubuntu and Android. Unless this is dealt with, then the distro will not continue at the top. I know, openSUSE is in the top right now. I’m not bashing openSUSE at all. I’ve been with openSUSE for years, and only in the past year, year and half or so have I gone exploring. This exploring has lead me to this realization. I do hope that this will be considered. I’m not looking for a debate or an argument. I doubt I’ll reply to defend my point. Either this will be considered, or it wont. Since my disability, I can’t spend hours on my computer trying to make things work. I don’t have that strength anymore. If I remember right, Linus Torvalds said that an operating system should be something you don’t notice. You should be able to just do your work. Well, folks, that’s what I’m looking for. I’ll play around in openSUSE for a bit longer and see if my views change at all, but it could be that openSUSE just aint for me anymore. Which is sad. Like I said at the top, at the opening, you guys, that is this forum, will always be my home. It’s the distro I’m not sure of.
Go where your interest takes you Jonathan. Use what works best for you.
Thanks deano. I still think of this as home.
I too just hopped back onto openSUSE after being in distro limbo for a bit.
I was using Mageia for a bit there, as well as Fedora and Mint 17.1 but I decided to check if some of the issues I had with 13.2 were fixed.
They were so thus I return.
It’s a quandary we all find ourselves in from time to time.
There have actually been some significant changes in most of the distros over the time I have been with openSUSE
And it’s true, Ubuntu has some great points, which seems to be what you are saying.
I actually use kubuntu on one of my machines
It’s not a problem to me which Linux OS you use.
Just be happy and enjoy.
Carl
YIKES!!! Jon
After surviving all that you’ve earned the right to use any disto you want!!!
In the meantime there’s a lot of people that’d love to lose 75lbs a good thing there for sure.
Then too no more pain well that’s just fantastic! A definite indicator of better things to come!
So anyway I have COPD and this had worked for me.
I may be in violation of forum rules for this but here’s a site that has helped me, perhaps you’ll find it helpfull too.
http://www.flowdreaming.com/
Not the norm but I’ve never made a claim of being normal anyway.
Whether you stay with Opensuse or not or even start your own (you never know you might just get that much better)(JonLinux?)
Welcome back Jon you’ve been missed it’s not the same here without you. I and some of the newbies have need of your advice. You’ll get better and better!