What makes you like OpenSUSE?

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Thanks for the suggestion! I have not tried MirrorCache before. I’ll give that a shot later, hopefully it improves things a bit.

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In fact, you have several ways to go:

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Hello to all participants. I’m a bit obsessed with openSUSE. in April '23 I asked IT professionals and did a lot of research on the internet: openSUSE is very underrated as a membership but unanimously considered one of the most secure and reliable distros. From then on, despite trying other distros, the point of reference has always been this brand: openSUSE. I had up to 12 opensuse installed in different virtualbox vms and when belonging to the same version I tested different desktops. Ultimately I focused on the KDE and XFCE desktops. And, for me and my needs, a Leap 15.6 system with KDE desktop would be of optimal use. In vm virtualbox it is the most stable and reliable system. Unfortunately I had bare metal problems with a 15 year old laptop. Ironically, KDE gives me problems in bare metal but works great in xfce. Ideally I would prefer an even slower, more conservative slowroll system. But I already like it a lot and I have done many installations of Leap 15.6 for family and friends since the beta. I’m probably a little paranoid but after being the victim of an online scam many years ago I have always prioritized safety. No distro (within my reach) reaches, in my opinion, the base level of my standards that I feel openSUSE reaches. This is my very personal opinion.

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I started looking at Linux early and tried Phat Linux. It was sort of like a flatpak. It was called Phat (Fat) because it was one huge file that ran from a Windows FAT partition. It was slow for many reasons. I tried Redhat with Gnome and ditched that faster than Phat.

I then ran Mandrake, Mandriva and finally Mageia until I bought my Intel ARC GPU in 2023. Back in 2014 or so I tried a few distros. Fedora and I forgot what else. I wanted to find what I’d switch to if something happened to Mageia. PCLinuxOS has Mandrake’s Control Center. I chose Suse for if I ever totally leave Mageia, or they quit.

I ran the “M” distros because of their great configuration tools and KDE. So in 2023, I needed the newest Intel ARC drivers, Tumbleweed had them.

But I agree. The community is great, the OS is great and I’ll be switching to Slowroll once everything settles down from the Plasma and ARC driver updates. Slowroll is a very good happy medium for me over Leap.

It boils down to community, configuration tools and Plasma. Mageia is fantastic but a little behind. I had very few real problems with it and I’ve had a few with TW.

Another reason is I’m KDE all of the way and I read posts from people who don’t like how the other desktops are stripped of configuration options, no sense in trying them. KDE has almost always added user options. But they did remove the ability to have a different theme on each widget.

The software installer has always bugged me, speed wise, on every distro. NVMe improved the wait time to get to the list, but it still bugs me. But I’m not considering the time hunting for software like on Windows. That really bugged me. The Suse installer is great.

I now have my dream machine that I could only read about in the 80’s. A Unix like OS, with a fast 5950X processor, over 100 TB of storage and all of the software I need, except for some software for programming Kenwood amateur radios (ham radios).

I think a simpler question would be why don’t you run a different distro? But that would read like distro bashing and we don’t want to do that. All distros are part of the Linux community and I’ve used Arch wiki a lot.

NOTE: I read replies with Nvidia problems.

I built a 7950X3D for a friend. Tumbleweed installed the Nvidia driver for his 4070 during the initial installation in October 2023. Also, there hasn’t been a real problem with the newer X670 chipset etc. It doesn’t read all of the sensors yet but it will soon from what I’ve read. Everything else works, WiFi, Bluetooth and sound etc. Good support for newer hardware or integrated quickly. This is important to me too.

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I started with RedHat in 1998. Switched to SuSE (later openSUSE) in 2001 based on a suggestion of a work colleague. I have always used openSUSE since - and only occasionally (on a second PC) looked at Ubuntu and Red Hat and Fedora, but honestly, while they are good, they did not offer for me anything more, that I specifically wanted, that I could not get with openSUSE.

The openSUSE community immediately attracted me due to many of the great people who contribute and help and who share their experiences - and likely even to this day, THAT is the main reason why I have stayed with openSUSE (compared to other great GNU/Linux distributions).

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i started with ubuntu back around maybe 2004 ish and i remember it was a nightmare. mostly because everything kept breaking but mostly due to no fault of my own and lack of knowledge lol. i remember at first i did not understand what dependency’s were so i would “install something” get told i need a bunch of other packages “aka dependencies” not liking that i had new mystery packages i would deselect as many as possible and proceed to install crap into a now broken system due to my own decisions.

then i learned about compiz fusion and wow was i hooked honestly i think eye candy is what kept me wanting to use linux wanting to feel more cool than my friends who had windows. i also learned about hard dick encryption at the time i was super into security once i found out everything spys on you windows included. let me tell you i broke so many of my installs partitioning hard drives and encrypting them in ways i thought was more secure even going as far to try and hide a partition within another both encrypted with separate passwords at once point xD. as i learned more i grew and so did my taste for linux. i remember i started with mandriva linux and the MCC or mandrive control center much like yast at the time and that was the first time i fell in love with KDE and it was amazing… well until they got liquidated for stealing money if i remember correctly.

I distro hopped for years going from linux mint to trying fedora to many others as well then i found mandriva and well its been rough but i used tumbleweed because of my needs with newer hardware. tumbleweed was amazing although mesa on TW has been a nightmare almost every month mesa would semi break my OS 2-3 times a month super super annoying. as far as the opensuse community goes im going to be honest and maybe im just unlucky but there had been so many times after i joined the forums i would borderline get harassed and no one would care yet im the one who would get banned. stupid things from me asking for help and instead of helping i get hey idiot you spelled something wrong instead to more obscure things like someone else asking for help then me giving my help what ive used in suse for years and admins literally telling me im wrong. I would show documentation proof for what im saying with provided links and me again getting banned and my posts removed…not a fun time for someone who just wanted some help. honestly it made me not want to ask for help on here unless i absolutely had to and it made me feel like i shouldn’t waste my time to help others since when i did i got treated poorly at every turn it seemed.

thankfully that all seems to be in the past i hope for good. i even considered switching distros many many times to this day due to this alone. I recently switched to slowroll and fell in love with it again so hopefully this will be the start and an end to my forever linux home. and thanks to all the help and support from well the people who actually care enough to help keep it up we can only progress forward as a community who is kind to one another and helps with logic in mind.

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I liked the OS so much i even purchased a backpack (the quality was not great), very thin material and basically no padding especially at the bottom very hard to trust it with a laptop in it. oh well i was just happy to give money to opensuse in some way.

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I have an anniversary shirt and I’ll probably get a cameleon plush… if I find one.

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Do you actually have references to these? This is quite new to me and I’m sure administrators would love to look at these and issue appropriate actions.

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well yes and no is the answer i dont want anyone to get in trouble and i feel itll somehow fall back to me but this one pertains to the “difference in opinions”

but a lot of what i posted there was removed and i dont feel comfortable providing more context nor do i remember it clearly enough being quite a while ago and i didnt take screenshots.

and this one although not what i was looking for pertains to some grammar people

i personally just find it rude to ask for help and have someones read my question and point out flaws in punctuation it just seem petty and not relevant to the question and a waste of time for them to type out and more importantly a waste of my personal time to have to read.

but i digress and again moving forward this has not been an issue.

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If you run into this, just report it and staff will review and address the issue if it’s appropriate.

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I looked at your posts, honestly I don’t particularly like the attitude that people had towards you but at the same time I have to admit. It is a little bit hard to read some of your messages.

To many understanding, a lot of us in this community are technical and most of us read technically, meaning we don’t read the whole thing, we read some sections of a paragraph for key words, usually before or following a punctuation.

I agree that it’s pretty rude to point out grammar issues when you are asking for support but it would help them to understand your request/problem better with better grammar.

The only thing I can really say on this is that not to take it personally and keep at it with writing, it took me quite a while to turn English, was not my first language but it is now my strongest language… Next up German. Don’t be afraid of being wrong but do learn and improve, like we all should.

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thanks for understanding and no i get it ya cant expect to make everyone happy all i can do is breath and exhale and move on with my day. hey i mean who is to say that they just have had a bad day it happens and we dont know what others lives are like. moving on is about all one can do and i know my grammar and punctuation is not the best but hey at least i try and as long as we understand each other and in the end can get along and work together i say thats all that matters ^^

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Tumbleweed user here, I love it because it just works.

I like that the packages are tested before release, I’ve broken my system a couple of times with Arch, I don’t have to worry about it with TW. If something was going to go bad, I can always go back with btrfs snapshots.

I also enjoy the community and these forums, where help is available when needed.

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yea its super reliable in the aspect of snapshots. honestly ive never used a snapshot since i usually use ext4 if something goes wrong i always keep old ISO’s around then do a system “upgrade” from the usb an technically it downgrades it to that snapshot but my point is its saved my system so many times.

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How do you plan to keep them up to date when Leap 15.6 reaches its end of life?

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@heitormoreira they can upgrade to Leap 15.7, or maybe Leap 16 if available then…

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My question is not about this.
I would like @Keyran17 saying how he technically planned to do it.

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HI. He apologizes for the delay. I don’t know the forum very well yet… After Leap 15.6 I hope for a successor or for a SlowRoll that has left its experimental state…
the beauty of openSUSE is the choice.

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OK, so you planned to do it by hand, one computer after the other.