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A cynical person might read this as: "Even if you don't use SUSE, you can still give us your money" But SuSE Linux was my first Linux distro, an for the past c
by krylon 3y ago
A cynical person might read this as: "Even if you don't use SUSE, you can still give us your money"
But SuSE Linux was my first Linux distro, an for the past couple of years[0], I've been a happy openSUSE user, so I'm not that cynical.
[0] I still have the box with the CDs and manuals sitting on my bookshelf. :-)
EDIT: Forgot a word.
- galangalalgol 3y agoI'm considering trying SuSE MicroOS as a desktop for a while. Any thoughts? I tried suse for a few weeks about a quarter century ago then went back to slackware, so I have no relevant experience.
- krylon 3y agoI haven't tries MicroOS, so I cannot comment on that. I use both Leap and Tumbleweed and am quite happy with both. Tumbleweed occasionally breaks something, but but it uses snapper to create a snapshot before each update, so if there's a problem, I boot into the most recent stable snapshot and wait for a couple of days before I update again. Leap is very stable in my experience, while also offering relatively up-to-date packages. The main problem is that out of the box, support for multimedia is not very good, but there is community-run repository with everything I need, i.e. video codecs and such. If you have a spare computer, I suggest just installing it on that and giving it a try. Otherwise, a virtual machine. It's a lot more heavyweight than Slackware, obviously, and if you dislike systemd, you might not like it very much. But I don't know your preferences and requirements are, so the best I can say is to give it a try and decide for yourself.
- galangalalgol 3y agoI've been using a mix of things. I actually like gnome for some reason, but anything that lets me avoid the mouse is fine. Systemd is a don't care for this experiment because I want something container focused anyway, where init or systemd can start podman and I'll take it from there. And I want rolling because I like not messing with things that aren't the thing I'm doing. I like apt better than dnf for cross compiling tools, but dnf better for most everything else.
- vyskocilm 3y agoI use openSUSE Aeon (former MicroOS Desktop) for about a year. It is based on rolling Tumleweed and the system is stable. It updates on a background automatically. If you are not looking for a fine tunning your system and expects stable (yet bleeding edge) base, which just works, I can recommend it. The biggest thing is that the model pushes one to embrace usage of a distrobox/flatpak.
- bogwog 3y agoThat looks interesting. I've been looking for a new OS to migrate away from Fedora Silverblue recently, since I pretty much no longer trust RH. Would you happen to know if there are any major differences between distrobox and toolbox? Does distrobox also support running graphical apps with hardware acceleration and CUDA with the official Nvidia drivers? That's pretty much my biggest concern.
- krylon 3y agoI just installed µOS in a VM and will play with it for a bit. It seems very intriguing. If I like it, I might switch my openSUSE machines.
- signalblur 3y agoI’ve been using Fedora Silverblue for about two years and recently tried MicroOS (OpenSuse Aeon) and it is really wonderful. It’s almost identical in capability, but with MUCH less pre-installed package layered over it (IE: it comes with the Firefox flatpak pre-installed). I enjoy that it’s a rolling release as well personally