New OpenSuse User: Need Advices

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Hello everybody

I am new with Opensuse after testing several distro like Mageia or Debian.
I am curious to discover this distribution.

I am hesitating between Leap 16, Tumbleweed and Slowroll.
I do not need my software to be cutting edge, but more than two year old version is a bit disturbing me. At the moment I am trying Slowroll.

I have several questions:

Does Open Suse Leap 16 support Intel gen7 processors? I have a Dell Precision 5520?

Is there the same number of packages on Leap, Tumbleweed, Slowroll?
I am for example looking here to find Wine and Gnu Octave: https://software.opensuse.org/ but cannot find these applications when choosing Leap.

I am also disturbed by Yast: I eared it is deprecated but it is still present on tumbleweed and I am especially lost when I try to understand how to manage Yast Firewall and Network Manager at the same time. Should I switch to another manager?

Anyway I appreciate the fact I can encrypt my hard disk so easily including the boot.

Have a nice evening

Sincerely

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@Anonymous23 Hi and Welcome to the Forum :smile:
The version numbers in Leap don’t necessarily mean they are “old” with respect to security, CVE’s etc. In Leap fixes are backported, just don’t necessarily get new application features.

Check your cpu via /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --help if it’s v3 then you can get some extra optimizations from v3 packages.

Don’t use the software seach URL, it’s broken… use your Desktop Software manager.

For the likes of Leap and wine, steam etc one needs to use flatpaks and set the kernel option ia32_emulation=1 and install selinux-policy-targeted-gaming.

Cockpit (you need to install) will handle the firewall/rules etc as well as NetworkManager just fine.

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Thanks a lot for your Help

I finally found how to use Yast Firewall.

I was not clear when saying two years old. My system can be two years old but I need some specific packages like Gnu Octave to be recent. So maybe a rolling release is better?

I will try cockpit.

Have a nice day

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[quote=“malcolmlewis, post:2, topic:189959”]

Processor seems OK.

Thanks

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@Anonymous23 Then I would look at using distrobox for Gnu Octave, pick any distro you like then :wink: and use Leap?

https://en.opensuse.org/Distrobox

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Seems to be the good solution.
Thanks again

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Hi

I have tried Tumbleweed, Slowroll, Leap.

I am really unconfortable with Leap Agama installer. I cannot use LVM for a partition.

The fact that I have to type several times my password with different keyboards settings In case of full disk encryption is also uncomfortable . I know it can be solved with some tricks . But it’s better when it works out of the box

I guess iI will use slowroll as a compromise

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@Anonymous23 AFAIK LVM is an option in the installer? Maybe Aeon will be more to your liking? https://aeondesktop.github.io/

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Yes it is an option but you can only choose a physical hard disk to create the LVM. You cannot use a partition.

I will look Aeon