Graham McCallum
The Late Night Linux FamilyWe decided to give openSUSE a try. We had a great time. Honest.
Jim Salter@latenightlinux well I know what I'm queueing up for MY next car ride...
MikeE@latenightlinux poor OpenSUSE…. I wonder if their target demographic is people who will change things up after install anyway, so the urgency to have a functioning default state is diminished. It certainly took me some time to iron out a good few kinks (and then it’s just been working for months)
Greg Brooks@mikee @latenightlinux There isn’t a target demographic. Contributors just work on whatever they want to. If you want OpenSuse and the part you care about better, you’re expected to make it better. If a part looses interest, they just ship outdate libraries because nobody volunteers to remove things.
@latenightlinux After a couple years of wanting OpenSuse coverage, I’ve since left for Fedora. OpenSuse and Suse have never been further apart, Suse enterprise is attaching themselves to any Ai title they can, and OpenSuse is just whatever a contributor wants to work on. No real central vision and they don’t want people asking for one.
OKD 
🚴 📷@latenightlinux I'm genuinely surprised how bad the experience seems to be.
Especially retiring software in their distribution and replacing it with something new and half-baked but still shipping the old and now broken software... in a basically broken "release" version.
And something like "I'm not german and/or not located in germany" and the installer having difficulties accepting that...
Talk about a car crash of an experience with a distro.
Ben Hills@latenightlinux SuSE was my distro of choice years ago when it was owned by the founding company and before Novell trashed it. It came it big boxes with DVD and manuals. I should give it another try.