KapedYeah! Today is 18 Years of openSUSE
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OkToBeTakeiold, reliable, stable SuSE. cheers! 🍻
IgnacioHappy birthday! It's a great European distro, and I was happy when I used it back in the day. There is only one little problem with it which can't be fixed.
T0RB1TAnd that problem is…?
Don’t leave us hanging… What’s that issue?
The bear doesn't like it anymore.
Perhaps the bear should reconsider, it has the cutest reptilian mascot among all distros. That has to count for something.
Me and OpenSUSE share a birthday, and a birth year as well! Woohoo! Happy Birthday, OpenSUSE!
That’s quite personal info to connect to your account and could be used to identify you.
Just thought you’d want to consider the implications of your comment. Sorry to bother you if you’re not concerned by people knowing.
FedoraBig brother is watching you :P
You joke, but if lemmy gets popular, Google and Meta could build a profile based on that info. If OP shares more details about themselves like location, they could potentially uniquely identify them.
Tbh, I didn’t even think of that. It’s good I’ve been lying about my location, then.
Are you by chance a chameleon?
Last I checked, no.
FarraigePlaisteachReally liked SUSE back in the 00s. I found .deb and apt never gave me a breakage so I never returned, but I’m sure they have something more sophisticated these days too.
Yast and zypper are pretty cool in their own right.
I left OpenSuse Tumbleweed because I couldn’t get UE5 to run, which is probably more an Nvidia problem than a Suse problem. I had a long history with Debian-based distros but I really enjoyed my time on Tumbleweed otherwise. I just don’t think a rolling distro is a great idea when running Nvidia. The drivers are too finicky.
To be fair, openSUSE broke less for me than Arch with NVIDIA, so I guess credit where it’s due. I recently switched to an AMD GPU and haven’t had a single Tumbleweed breakage since, at least nothing that couldn’t be fixed with a reboot (had some weird wayland rendering glitches).
It makes me less angry than any other OS so far, so I’ll probably stick around awhile.
My very first distro that introduced me to Linux. So many years ago. Maybe I will take it for a spin soon to see how it has progressed over the years.
The problem with openSUSE Tumbleweed I have is that so far I’ve never been able to install it. For all other Linux distros I can just get the ISO and use virt-manager to create a VM. But openSUSE never manages to boot. Any ideas why? I’d love to try it.
SpiracleIt failed to boot for me, too. Only worked when I stopped asking it to encrypt the hard drive.
To be honest, only laziness is stopping me from switching to another OS, though. Very poor experience so far.
It’s just sorta strange to be because everything from fedora, ubuntu to arch and even windows just works in virt-manager without any special settings and openSUSE just doesn’t even get to the installer.
I thought you are supposed to install extensions through the web interface, not the command line
Well if they are in the repos i assume it be less likely to have incompatibilites when updates happen?
Both of those packages exist on OBS (here’s the second), but as another mentioned, you should be installing these through GNOME’s built-in extension manager (the web interface).
Woo! It’s finally an adult in my country, I’ll have to change my wallpaper to celebrate.
Congratulations to the openSUSE team/contributors for helping maintain this wonderful project! 🎉
I really want to like OpenSUSE. Seems polished and well done, and from a European Company, but I just always run into roadblocks. The packaging names are sufficiently different to RH/DEB/Arch to make googling things a pain and sometimes things I need just aren’t there. Few weeks ago I was trying to compile “solo2” with cargo and it needed some dev library that I just couldn’t find, ended up doing what I needed from my Arch system.
I have been meaning to try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a while. Perhaps this is the oman that I needed.
nevialThe Sultanate of Oman approves
harukiTried it out once and really impressive with the rollback functionality (Snapper, btrfs) and killer YaST. Fedora is my main OS for working now but will definitely consider to go back to Suse one day.
TableCoffeeI think I was around 13 years old, our home family computer had Windows ME on it. It broke all the time. I think I may have tried Ubuntu first on that PC but then came across SUSE and decided to replace windows with that because the KDE interface at the time (was horrendously 90’s looking) but felt more like windows. I think I ran that on the computer for a year or so before my father made me put XP on it when that was released.
It was my first real foray into Linux and it would be many moons until I ran it full time as an adult but I have a soft spot for it.
I used OpenSUSE for a few months, both Leap and Tumbleweed, and the system itself was mostly snappy and stable, overall a pretty solid distro. My one real pain point using it was that I somewhat frequently ran into the problems of either dependency hell or update de-syncs between the main repos and Packman (which I needed due to not shipping with codecs I needed). That said, it surprises me that OpenSUSE doesn’t get more attention as a stable, high quality distro. They’re content to do their own thing, and they do it well.
This is the same reason why I don’t use opensuse or fedora. Tried it out on an older machine and the dependency issues due to using packman/rpmfusion packages for media codecs really bugged me. Which is a shame considering how good the rest of the experience using opensuse is.
Also I have endeavourOS setup to my liking on my current device and I do not want to go through all that again.
Awesome distro. Been my daily driver and home lab choice for over a decade. Keep up the great work!
vodnikDon’t like them because of anti-semitism from the leadership
Justin DearingI guess hes talking about this
It’s quite the story, but no one should believe anything they read on the internet at face value. And I don’t know how to tell this guy, but not caring about Jewish holidays is common everywhere. I only wish humans didn’t care about other religions’ holidays equally.
@Potatofish @SusWombat so, yes there is litley another side to this, and this guy thinks very highly of himself. HOWEVER, literally letting the dude have a little "happy haunakah" tweet on official comms would have been not that hard. So worth looking into
Hopefully in the 19th they will figure out that they need more packages that are common in fedora or Arch, etc.
Neat! SUSE was technically my first Linux distro I installed probably circa 2006 via 3 or 4 CDs on some old donated hardware. I played around with it for a bit but never really dove in. A few years later I tried Ubuntu from a “demo” CD I got in Linux magazine and outside of a bit of experimental distro hopping I’ve been mostly on Ubuntu for the last 17ish years. Just about 3 weeks ago, I decided to install openSUSE again. Was split between tumbleweed and Leap, but decided to go with Leap (15.5). It’s a bit different coming from a .deb based system, but I’m digging it so far. Kind of crazy that the build I installed so long ago was probably one of the first releases of SUSE.
_metamythical [he/him]Suse is older than 18.
The first version appeared in early 1994, making SUSE one of the oldest existing commercial distributions.
This is about openSUSE, their free personal desktop offering.