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Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home

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Post by raffraffraff » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 6:01 AM UTC

bjoli wrote: post #3

I moved from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE tumbleweed recently and I must say it is lovely. The OS is still the Linux I learned when running slackware (with some modern extras that I have learned to live with) while still giving me most of the polish of Ubuntu. Some things were of course strange. Having to type the disk encryption password twice being standard behaviour is pretty strange, and not getting to set the keyboard lay…

I switched about 8 months ago, and also made the switch to KDE around the same time. I'm running it on everything I own now, apart from my phone and a Raspberry Pi. I love it. Having snapper installed and enabled by default has saved my bacon twice. Most recently I did a `zypper dup --no-recommends` and my ASUS Zenbook S OLED suddenly refused to operate at any resolution other than max (amd driver / kernel update?) so I rolled back and everything worked. That's extremely convenient, especially on a work machine where you can't afford to be wasting half a day fixing shit.

Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home

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Post by raffraffraff » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 6:07 AM UTC

petre wrote: post #6

We have been using openSuSE Leap on our servers for at least 12 years and are quite happy with it. Compared to CentOS, Ubuntu LTS and Debian it has a yearly release cycle and 18 month support window. https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime Upgrades between minor versions are quite easy to do and imply minimal risk. Since 15.3 if ones uses btrfs and something goes wrong the upgrade can also be rolled back. It has both yast (…

I'm using Tumbleweed at work. In 8 months of weekly `zypper dup` I've encountered 2 issues, one minor and one major. In both cases I did a smaller rollback and it instantly fixed the issue. Generally if you wait a week and retry, the upgrade works because the but has been fixed.

Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home

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Post by RealStickman_ » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 8:00 AM UTC

evilmaidmyass wrote: post #19

COGlory wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe that the disk encryption twice thing is to prevent the so called "evil maid" attack. Where both the boot partition, and the file system are separately encrypted. Frustratingly, the encryption in GRUB2 is painfully slow, so I normally disable that. You can do this by creating the boot partition separately from the root file system, and only encryption the OS filesystem. The downside is that if someone steals…

I did install OpenSUSE and immediately removed it after I encountered the same problem . It's not normal to have to enter the exact same password twice. I don't care if it's about the "evil maid" attack or whatever. Linux developers would have us open our fridges by first flipping them upside down and explain with a straight face it's perfectly normal and is meant to address .

It's possbile to setup a keyfile in your boot partition to decrypt your root partition so you only have to enter a password once. But this really shouldn't be necessary.

Re: From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home

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Post by bjoli » Sat, Jul 22, 2023, 7:19 AM UTC

r4indeer wrote: post #7

bjoli wrote: post #3

I moved from Ubuntu to OpenSUSE tumbleweed recently and I must say it is lovely. The OS is still the Linux I learned when running slackware (with some modern extras that I have learned to live with) while still giving me most of the polish of Ubuntu. Some things were of course strange. Having to type the disk encryption password twice being standard behaviour is pretty strange, and not getting to set the keyboard lay…

IIRC you can set the keyboard layout right at the start of the install. It should be on the same page as the license agreement.

I can set swedish, but not Swedish Dvorak.