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   novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 22:31:55 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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   @AndersZorn I wouldn't necessarily recommend TW for your first distro tbh, it's unapologetically a hardened workstation-class professional distro, and is still very advanced with what it can do despite the fact that it has a GUI for all that advanced stuff (thanks to YaST you'll never use the terminal for sysadmin stuff again hehe). It's also pretty niche so you'll have to know how to translate knowledge between distros easily for stuff online to work for you. I'd recommend an easier beginner distro

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 22:13:18 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

     #openSUSE #Tumbleweed is fucking amazing

     - very lightweight and fast for a distro that comes with GNOME

     - excellent battery life

     - custom suse-prime tool

     - one of the few distros that gets nvidia drivers supported directly by nvidia

     - rolling release, but isn't just willy nilly package updates whenever upstream updates their packages, but synced per day, so you get a synced up set of updates for that day that can be heavily automatically tested on their continuous integration serves to make sure that combination of packages doesn't cause problems, meaning it's rolling release but every day you get a tested and stable build that won't have problems. NO OTHER DISTRO HAS AUTOMATED QA, and no other distro does synced and tested rolling release like this, it's amazing.

     - a very powerful package manager with a full SAT solver built in, and tracks what source each package is from and lets you switch it, so you can't get into messes like on Arch

     - btrfs deeply integrated into the entire OS and installer

     - an extremely powerful and in-depth installer (very advanced partition manager that lets you mix ext4, XFS, btrfs, LVM, and FDE in whatever baroque way you want, lets you pick *every single* package installed on your computer if you want, or pick general patterns and then cut down the patterns, or even install arbitrary packages as part of the installation process), gives you Arch-level control but with a GUI and sanity checks

     - btrfs snapshots integrated in the update and pkg install process and with easy to use tools so you can rollback easily after any big change

     - supports Secure Boot

     - one of the only (if not the only) distro that *properly* supports Trusted Boot, which uses the TPM to do a user-settable chain of verification and trust for the entire boot process, exactly like Graphene, to protect you from evil made and corruption of your core OS

     - comes with AppArmor installed, configured, and enabled

     - well integrated with vendor hardware, can actually do firmware updates from GNOME Software and such

     - has a very nice stock GNOME option and KDE option, both well supported

     - again, just really fast and lightweight and good on battery somehow

     Every time I think about switching distros, I look at this list of features and realize that, like, honestly? I'm not gonna find anything this good overall even if other distros might have other cool features. It's rolling release to satisfy my need for the latest stuff without being unstable. It's light and fast and deeply customizable in advanced ways, and yet easy to do that for bc of YaST and the installer and the sanity checks those have.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 22:26:31 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     Here's my partitioning scheme btw, all built in a GUI that checks to make sure it will actually boot:

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     Mac Berg (macberg@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 22:29:36 JST Mac Berg

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     @anarchopunk_girl It really is amazing. However I'm wondering about the battery life, I had to find a governor to install and faff about with to get an acceptable battery life (and it's still not near Windows on the same machine). I'm running KDE though. Did one come with Gnome?

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 22:29:36 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @macberg yeah GNOME comes with the power-profiles-daemon, which is pretty powerful and advanced as far as linux power management goes. It puts a UI element in the GNOME quick settings menu that lets you choose between Performance, Balanced, and Power Saving modes. In Power Saving it caps the CPU at a certain low power speed and then aggressively throttles it down on lighter loads as well. In balanced mode, it uses the full range of the CPU's clock speed, but changes it very often and responsively according to load to try to minimize the amount of time you spend at high clock speeds. It also disables turbo. In performance, it basically just pins the clock speed to max and then turbos when the load is high.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 09:54:11 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     @MsDropbear42 @AndersZorn nowadays if you do sudo zypper up on TW it does a distro upgrade instead

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     MsDropbear42 (msdropbear42@firefish.lgbt)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2023 09:54:24 JST MsDropbear42

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     @anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social @AndersZorn@kolektiva.social thanks to YaST you'll never use the terminal for sysadmin stuff again hehe)....but you still will need terminal for system updates. Or, at least, back when i last used oS TW ~7 years ago, one of the best ways to break one's system was to use YaST for system updates. Back then, YaST was coded to do updates via sudo zypper up [which was only correct for & applicable to Leap], rather than the correct sudo zypper dup. Have they changed YaST for TW now? If not, i'd still avoid using it for updates in TW.
     
     #openSUSE #Tumbleweed