In my opinion one of the full design themes should be picked because some of those single designs look very nice individually but would clash with others.
My pick would be Emiliano’s theme, it looks the most like an evolution of the opensuse style. Imo the others are either a bit too minimalist or deviate too strongly from the original design.
Nikolayan’s design is also good, but I prefer Emiliano’s because that you can recognise the chameleon better in every logo.
It is a friendly recognizable chameleon and they did a good job with integrating the existing abstract logos.
From the Solo designs I loved the ones with the branch with different endings a lot. It had a warm touch to it, but was a little to filigrane for a logo.
I would say so, but things take time to filter down through, and as always within openSUSE, the folks that do the work, are the ones that decide how they want to do things, and what they want to work on.
How many openSUSE distros are there?.. Two of the ones mentioned there I’ve never heard before, and there’s like half a dozen others I’ve heard mentioned. Are these official variations or derivates?
I love Tux, but I wish Linux as a whole would have a logo. Like, you have Windows and Apple logo that represent the OSes in a simple way, it works even if the logo is small. Linux doesn’t have that, so when someone needs a logo they just use the logo of a Linux distro instead, or they show multiple distros, or more likely, they will visually represent some distros, but not all distros they support.
Damn it. I can’t upvote and down vote at the same time. Firstly, yes I agree that a total rebranding is needed, as the logos for MicroOS, Kalpa, etc are well… Uninspired. Secondly, leave the penguin alone man.
Keep in mind that because MicroOS, Leap Micro and Aeon have icons already set, this means that whoever design the rest will be restricted by the currently existing ones.
Like, both MicroOS and Leap Micro have a horizontal line and a circle in the middle. And Leap Micro basically forces a new design of Leap logo to be almost exactly like the previous one. And Aeon has the middle circle of Micro, but split into two, so Kalpa should also have the split circle somewhere.
That said, I’m not exactly a fan of the MicroOS, Leap Micro and Aeon logos. They are just outlines, and very thin. I understand that logos need to work in monochrome, but they are just… Anorexic. Would prefer if there was an entire rebranding
I know people don’t really like systemd much but goddamn if systemd-boot isn’t easier to work with than grub. On my last two Arch installs I’ve used systemd-boot and I have absolutely no complaints. I don’t alway need an entire mini OS to boot my kernel.
I don't like systemd at all, but a boot routine that allows to load the plain kernel instead of an image and maybe choose other init systems than systemd would be nice. This is how most other Unix-like systems work.
Starting the init system is the task of the root filesystem or initrd, with any boot loader. Systemd-boot happily boot into any init system just fine, just like any other bootloader that can boot Linux will boot into systemd just fine.
Systemd-boot boots kernel images (with efi-loader code embedded) and only offers a menu to pick which kernel file to load. What makes systemd-boot interesting is that it does nothing more than that: It does not read random filesystems, it does not implement random encryption things, does not parse image files and complex theme configuration, … .
Systemd-boot didn’t start as part of systemd, it used to be gummiboot (joke in German, it’s what those little rubber inflatible boats are called).
Systemd absorbed and integrated it in 2015.
It did start at RedHat with Kay Sievers and Harald Hoyer, which makes it unsurprising it was absorbed.
I’ve been transitioning to it as my default choice, I’ve never liked grub2, so I defaulted to syslinux for a long time, but lately systemd-boot is even less of a hassle.
I concur with this. Glad to see that Tumbleweed is offering it OOTB now, as I believe the only two choices prior to this (if you wanted it setup out of the box) was Arch and NixOS.
Edit: As pointed out below, Pop_OS! also supports systemd-boot OOTB, not sure how I forgot about it as that was my first exposure to systemd-boot.
Every time they do this survey the only people that answer are the old guys that never want change. It’s like a political election where only your elderly grandparents vote.
Of course, but you already know that the survey is unrepresentative of the userbase before it’s even announced. This is one reason I like MicroOS; it’s pushing new features that are necessary for functionality and features.
To some extent, with openSUSE "the will of the users" isn't particularly relevant, because most of the userbase aren't the ones that maintain the thing, and as a wholly volunteer developed project, the developers work on what interests them. It's not that nobody cares about the users, but if the users are the only one calling for $thing, and there isn't a developer interested in doing $thing, it isn't going to happen.
I suspect this pipewire update broke plasma volume control. Whenever my Bluetooth earbuds are connected, the Fn key presses to increase/reduce volume are ignored. Same goes for the volume widget in the tray bar, the volume bar is stuck. I have noticed that in the tray bar I got many duplicates for my earbuds, with the output (and input/mic) device showing up more than once. And more than one of the output/input devices are selectable, although they are described by a radio button, which should make it impossible.
I rolled back and it’s all fine now. This is how it looks after the rollback:
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