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openSUSE Developer/Maintainer/Member/Whatever.
I do things with openSUSE. Not that I'm particularly good at any of them =P

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This pretty much backs up what I've been seeing. Everybody wants to use Leap, nobody wants to work on it.

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The change shown in the upstream bug has been made in the openSUSE Tumbleweed Packages, months ago. Are you using Leap, or Tumbleweed?

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I actually read the whole post. Since you're on Tumbleweed, this is indeed a bug, please file one at bugzilla.opensuse.org

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The change listed in the upstream bug has been in Tumbleweed for months, I see you're running Tumbleweed, So this is obviously a bug. Please file a bug at bugzilla.opensuse.org, as there currently isn't one existing. (I'm not encountering this bug, just saying)

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I highly doubt this is ever going to happen. It's not what zypper is designed for. Its easy enough to write a bash alias, or shell script to combine the two commands.

Natureshadow, to openSUSE

I think I will start a thread here as a sort of diary.

Starting at , I have started to try on my laptop. As a Developer, I felt reluctant to try something else, and Debian is a great project.

However, as I am teaching openSUSE at Linuxhotel, I thought I should maybe get more familiar with it 🤣. Also, I had already fallen in love with .

If you are keen in following the pros and cons I discover, take a seat!

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@Natureshadow

@johanneskastl
I'd like to say that it's not normal, but it does happen. The Mirror infrastructure isn't exactly the most robust out there in the opensource world. You may try out the new CDN. https://news.opensuse.org/2023/07/31/try-out-cdn-with-opensuse-repos/

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Well, RIP Simon & Schuster. I give em five years, tops.

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Bah. This is just a piece of clickbait nonsense, or somebody trying to be edgy. I'm actually mildly offended by their "review" of "On the Road". Just makes me think that they probably haven't ever read anything other than somebody elses review of it.

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Ahhhh, good old komonews, I can always count on the comments section to be a wonderful experience.

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At the moment, yes, Clicking "Gnome Desktop" in the MicroOS ISO installer will get you Aeon, clicking "Plasma Desktop" will get you Kalpa.

The branding and flavour specific installation ISO's are still being worked on.

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I will never claim they are authentic, or even great, but I will destroy the 2 for a buck tacos.

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I don't care about beeper one way or another, but that bloody image with the post, it needs to die in a fire.

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Mostly because they're uneducated fools, that haven't any actual idea what the hell they're talking about.

Unless you're pulling sources, and building everything yourself, everything you get from most major distributions is "pre-compiled".

People hate anything new, they fear change, and they like drama, that's all it is.

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Fedora Silverblue or openSUSE Aeon, I'd probably say.

openSUSE openqa Service Outage 19-July

Heads up to all users of openQA : The virtual machine serving the webUI and main controlling openQA instance behind that will be moved to a shiny new SUSE datacenter next Wednesday, 2023-07-19. Expect the system to be unavailable for the majority of the day and reduced test capacities for the days after that. Find more details...

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They're moving it to a new datacenter, and presumably newer or better hardware. That's all I know, and that's all the progress.o.o issue is addressing.

I'm not aware of any fundamental problems with openQA itself, beyond the regular lack of developers writing tests for things.

Stupid Beginner Question: What Linux Desktop Environment works well or has an output mode for NTSC/PAL resolution?

Yes I am thinking of using my little TV (composite AV input only (from an HDMI-to-composite dongle)) as my second display. Going command line-only would be ok if I don't have a choice, but then I watch miniDV and VCD footages sometimes. My Mint machine was broken so i didn't have a chance to test that. So not sure if it could go...

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The dsektop environment really doesn't have anything to do with it. That's up to the video drivers and display server, be it X11 or Wayland. I haven't any idea which desktop might offer you the best tools for configuring those things though. Just as a rough guess, I'd guess KDE Plasma, perhaps XFCE?

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Packman is generally stable, and the only way to get the patent encumbered codecs for full AudioVideo decoding for Leap or Tumbleweed.

A distro and desktop environment recommendation for an old laptop (Read all of it, please.)

'sup? So, I am a beginner that has an old Samsung laptop from 2013 with an i3 4005U, a GeForce 710M, 500GB HDD (I will probably upgrade it to an SSD, but not for now.), 4GB 1600 MHz DDR3L RAM (the same for the HDD, will probably upgrade to 8GB some time.). It currently has Windows 10 Home but Linux is probably lighter (right?)...

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I'd probably drop openSUSE Tumbleweed with LXQt on it. But that's my preference for low-spec machines. There's any number of distros with "lightweight" GUI's that you can use. XFCE/MATE/LXQt probably being the ones that will give you the least headaches.

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No. While SUSE the corporation supports, and does have some limited input into the community project, openSUSE Tumbleweed is fully community developed and controlled (I don't believe there is anybody on the SUSE payroll who's job description is working on openSUSE, the SUSE Employees contributions to openSUSE are at their own discretion and interest). openSUSE Leap is also a fully community supported and developed point release distribution, that is based on the SUSE Linux Enterprise sources.

openSUSE Tumbleweed -> SUSE Linux -> openSUSE Leap

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No, nothing RedHat is doing affects Nobara. Nobara is based on Fedora, which is upstream of RedHat. Nothing is changing.

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I have no idea who signs his paychecks, but no, none of the announcement about the RHEL Sources affects Fedora in any way, unless Nobara is pulling sources from RHEL (which it isn't) this doesn't affect it at all. Nobara isn't an official Fedora, or RedHat product or project.

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This is nice for Oracle to say. That being said, Oracle are not "The Good Guys™" and never have been. They might be legitimately honest about Oracle Linux and their commitment to being open and free, but they're horrible about so many other things, and always have been.

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