Notices tagged with tumbleweed

#Linux on desktop would be more successful if #openSuse was more popular. #Tumbleweed for general use, #Leap for Office-PCs.

Generally I don't understand why other distros don't implement the ability to boot into system snapshots and revert to them easily. It's one of the most useful and user-friendly disaster recovery methods out there for desktop computers.

That said, it's also stable as fuck.

#KDE users will notice the latest @opensuse #Tumbleweed snapshot includes Frameworks 5.109.0. Find out what fixes & changes happened in this newer version. https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.109.0/

@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

#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.