The end of Windows 10 support in October 2025 presents a great opportunity for the Linux community to collectively help users transition their still-function...
  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
    12·
    1 day ago

    OpenSUSE is hardly what I would consider noob friendly, but it certainly beats remaining under Microsoft’s oppressing thumb.

    • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      opensuse was my shortest experiment when i used to distro hop because of how old their software seemed to be. (ie old like debian stable).

      this was almost 20 years; has it gotten better?

      • muhyb@programming.dev
        5·
        24 hours ago

        My first experiment with openSUSE was also not ended well back then but nowadays it’s in my top 3 list when I’m suggesting distros to people.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          23 hours ago

          … nowadays it’s in my top 3 list when I’m suggesting distros to people

          same here; but only because of the support like red hat’s and canonical’s

          • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
            1·
            18 hours ago

            I’ve tried it a few times over the years, but always find it clunky when coming from Fedora, so I end up jumping right back. It’s also a real shitshow with my System 76 laptop WiFi, just doesn’t play nice and takes to much work to make it functional.

    • twinnie@feddit.uk
      2·
      1 day ago

      I use it at home just because I wanted to try something different on my laptop, I really don’t understand what some people love about it so much. It’s bot terrible or anything, I just find it a bit clunky and there’s nothing remarkably good.

      • Leaflet@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        24 hours ago

        The big thing it has going for it is that they set up btrfs snapshots out of the box so you can rollback if necessary.

        They also do more automated testing than Arch so theoretically it should be more stable.