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I have some relatively fond memories of SuSE, because it was my first GNU/Linux distribution. Back then, it had the advantage of being pretty newbie-friendly (g
by krylon 11y ago
I have some relatively fond memories of SuSE, because it was my first GNU/Linux distribution. Back then, it had the advantage of being pretty newbie-friendly (graphical installer / system control utility) and good ISDN support. Since ISDN apparently never became popular outside of Germany, not many distros had good support for it, and setting it up manually could be a real pain (at least for a newbie - a couple of years later, I set up a dial-on-demand ISDN router using NetBSD). So SuSE was, in retrospect a good choice for a first distro.
Eventually, though, I got fed up with YaST, because it used to overwrite config files and thus wipe out all manual changes one made to them. Does SuSE still do that? I remember reading about plans to rewrite YaST from scratch, so hopefully they found a better way of dealing with config files. From a UI perspective, YaST was a neat tool for non-techies.
- rbrownsuse 11y agoYaST was written into Ruby, yes. These days YaST no longer overwrites config files, except from a very few corner cases where it really really wants to be in control of specific config files for very specific reasons. But if it notices local changes, it warns the admin and doesn't take over unless the admin consents So, no more unexpected config file obliteration :) (and even if it did, YaST is integrated with openSUSE's default btrfs snapshot tooling, so YaST takes a snapshot before and after it changes anything, so you could always revert)
- krylon 11y agoThanks for the info! I think I'll give it a try over the next extended weekend.