Just don't ask how long it took to get my dGPU working properly :D But thankfully, there were a bunch of helpful folks with tips!
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They feel super dated and I remember them being exactly the dame many years ago, but I get people liking to have the functionality in gui, it’s pretty sweet.
Only complaint that I had about OpenSuse was that horribly slow package manager, other than that, It’s a solid choice
I feel like a lot of the reason people are hesitant to hop into Linux is because of how everything that goes "under the hood" requires a bunch of terminal commands and text file changes.
Ironic, then, that I learned how to Linux the hard way -- In distros that expected exactly that from me. I cut my teeth in Arch and its siblings and sure, I can do that.
But it'S SO MUCH FASTER AND EASIER to just click a few buttons and then shit just works. YaST is bliss.
Like. DUDE. I don't have to edit some files and then clench my asshole for 55 seconds while rebooting when I change a few entries in Grub.
And Zypper actually CHECKS what processes are running and what packages you're installing, and actually tells you if you do or don't need a reboot, instead of a blanket "hmmmm we updated, should probably reboot but idfk, that's your problem now" which is what both apt and pacman gave me.
Quality of Life, it's really underrated.
This is one of the reason I like Debian. They don't change stuff unless there's a good reason to. Network configuration on my Debian servers is in
/etc/network/interfacesin mostly the same format it was in 20 years ago (the only difference today is that I'm dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 everywhere).ZYPP_SINGLE_RPMTRANS=1 and ZYPP_MEDIANETWORK=1 have made wonders. They are experimental but I've had good experience with them, with those zypper is a lot faster
My Arch is boringly stable on laptop and my gaming rig runs on Nobara. If I’ll have a reason to search for a new distro, OpenSuse is first on my list to try. Maybe those optimizations will be stable and default by the time 🤞
When i tried it 6 months ago I didn’t like how UI apps took more time to start. Then I realized it is all flatpak or similar. Package management was slow. Installation process took very long time. I assume it tried to auto detect my hardware.
And went back to Arch.
SUSE Feature set is the best.
I use openSUSE and rarely find myself using YaST. I feel like it's just a hassle navigating through all those dated menus. Zypper is not AS bad as people say and if you know what you're doing you can always use another rpm package manager like dnf. But that is a valid complaint lol.
Overall openSUSE is a fantastic distro though.