How much trouble would it be to include the following packages and settings in Leap 16 beta?
For Steam flatpak to work -
grub2-compat-ia32
selinux-policy-targeted-gaming
steam-devices
then:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Edit the following line to read - GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“ia32_emulation=1”
For Gnome Extensions to work:
extension-manager
gnome-shell-extensions-common
For HP inkjet and laser printers to work:
hplip-hpijs-3.25.2-lp160.1.2.x86_64.rpm
It’s at the RC stage now (not beta), so adding packages (as I understand it) is probably not a likely thing to happen at this point.
But you can certainly submit a request in bugzilla and see what the dev team thinks.
And sadly it’s a long long way from any RC I’ve ever seen. It’s a massively incomplete mess right now.
No Steam. No Gnome extensions. No printing. No apps except flatpak. Firefox does not play videos. Who would ever want to use this distro?
If you would have properly informed yourself, you would know that you need extra repos for some stuff, and they will only appear at/after release.
@iamjiwjr Huh, extensions work fine here? I don’t use Firefox or Steam, so can’t comment.
Printing works to my HP Network Printer, I do use flatpaks for VLC.
Steam is a closed-source product, and it’s not the project’s responsibility to test it or any other closed-source products that users might want to run on it.
If you want a finished product, use something that’s been released.
Agreed. As a (now retired) software engineer (36+ years), this is not an RC release … as would be defined by majority of software companies. 
Seems to work fine here in a VM.
GNOME on Wayland, installed several extensions just by going to extensions.gnome.org (installed the plugin for my browser when visiting the site, and then added a few extensions just fine). Didn’t need gnome-shell-extensions-common for the ones I selected at random.
Video playback in Firefox on Youtube: Works fine. Didn’t have to install anything extra.
Default install seems to include Gimp, Libreoffice, and a few other relatively small things. I added Myrlyn (which, running it to do installation, I really like the speed),
It’s easy to be critical. If you have specific issues, report them. Don’t just say “it’s a mess”. How do you expect anyone to address the things you think are “broken” unless you actually report them?
@hendersj no web browser or plugin is needed now, zypper in extension-manager 
Sure - I installed that as well and tried it out. My point was that extensions are easy to install, whether using a browser extension or installing the extension manager. 
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