@linux Sharing a 'small' inconvenience I had to fix with #opensuse#slowroll (I suspect #tumbleweed is the same) - I couldn't launch snaps (spotify, bitwarden) after update - error was: cannot determine seccomp compiler version in generateSystemKey fork/exec /usr/lib/snapd/snap-seccomp: no such file or directory
The fix (I first tried re-installing, didn't work) was to:
a. locate snap-seccomp - was in /usr/libexec/snapd
b. symlink: ln -s /usr/libexec/snapd /usr/lib/snapd
This is why I prefer using Distrobox on my personal computer. No package for Signal-Desktop? No problem, run it through a Debian container using Distrobox.
Did another Mac thing! After a false start last night, #OpenSuse#MicroOS is now up and running. And it's blummin' fast for an old girl.
Best part is, it turns out the fastest processor this Mac can take is like £15-20 on eBay. That plus a bit of extra RAM will make this into a tidy little performer. (Not a Performa, sadly.) (Also not that little.)
For curiosity's sake, I tried my RAM again, DIMM by DIMM, and my Mac didn't like any of it at all. Tried it alongside the RAM it came with (keeping in mind what you said about mixing RAM) and I got a red LED. So... I think I will have to seek out something that will definitely work, because it's clearly not keen on what I already have. Shouldn't be too expensive, though.
A new country has emerged in the top 5 of #openSUSE usage the past six months: USA leads with 31%, followed by Germany (12.4%), Brazil (6.5%), UK (5.4%), and Russia (5.1%). 🇬🇧 Made leap into the fourth position. #opensource#Linuxhttps://get.opensuse.org/
#DidYouKnow: A #Leap#Second is a one-second adjustment that is occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to accommodate the difference between:
Precise time (International Atomic Time (TAI), as measured by atomic clocks), and
Imprecise observed solar time (UT1), which varies due to irregularities and long-term slowdown in the Earth's rotation.
Day 300. #2YearLinuxChallenge is nearing the year mark. Still loving #openSUSE. I don't think I'll make it to the year mark before doing a fresh install, though. I may try to just clean out some of my packages manually and see if I can clean up that way without nuking and paving. Then I can keep this install.
#opensuse#aeon is like a 3gb ISO and it’s basically a bare gnome desktop. I can get a 3gb liveslak and ship all the ap/ & l/ sets of Slackware AND use native package managers to maintain it with. Aeon didn’t even have nano installed. What the hell is on that ISO? 😂 I really want to map it all out and see if I can make a comparable live system. Ya know, for funsies.
A lot has been written about the XZ Backdoor in the last few weeks, so it is time to look forward. Before doing so, we share further details about what happened with regards to openSUSE. For an overview how it affected openSUSE users, please refer to the previous post....
Two full months into Pop_OS now. While genereally happy, I struggle a bit with the system getting slower and slower over time, I need to reboot every 2-3 days to get back to normal. Resource monitors shows no havoc procresses and no excessive memory usage.
For some other reasons I installed openSUSE Tumbleweed in a VM with KDE 6 and now find it very tempting to switch. It was super fast and KDE seems just so much better at this point.
Switching distro is a huge PITA, so if you have any arguments against it, I would appreciate that before I go down that road 🙂
@withoutclass Very good advice, thank you. 🙏
Btw. I installed KDE on my Pop_OS and - surprise - after a few hours was not so happy anymore, its feature richness comes at a mental price for me. I was constantly fiddling with settings and completely lost focus. I realize now that some of the dumbness of the Gnome UI has advantages - perhaps my multidecade Mac experience is somewhat part of my DNA now.
With regards to lightweight DEs: I rely on full-blown DEs like Gnome for all the built in goodies like automatic power and network (Wifi) management, printer and scanner support etc. etc. since I only have one machine for personal and work. I realize this can all be done with the right mindset and patience with every DE, but that's where I personally run out of steam.
@thelinuxcast This happens a few times a year, when some major dependency down in the guts of the stack gets updated. And everything that links to it gets rebuilt up the stack.
