I honestly love OpenSUSE. About the only negative thing I can say about it is that zypper, an otherwise perfect package manager, is really, absurdly slow.
The History of S.u.S.E
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#53SUSE has always been this perennial figure in the Linux world for me; the Linux Distro that isn't talked about often, but is generally liked and respected, by most people who use it. I ran OpenSUSE for about a year in 2013-2014, and it did sort of have the Just Works nature to it: things did more or less what I expected them to do without much tinkering. It was the first Linux that I liked enough to be my sole operat…
I use it at (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, at work); I never particularly liked or disliked it; but once they adopted systemd - I lost respect for it.
100% of people who dislike systemd can't come up with a better solution that solves all of the problems that systemd was created to solve.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
National is generic, but many companies in the U.S. include America in their name.
Last time Germans put a National in front of an organization it did not go so well. Similar with Reich but surprisingly there are still a couple of things starting with Reich , like the Parliament building is still called Reichstag even if there is no Reich no more. Americans use National mostly when things are uncontroversially national and international. For mostly national and controversially international things…
> the Parliament building is still called Reichstag even if there is no Reich no more
"Reich" isn‘t a Nazi thing. The building was already called that decades earlier. It goes back to the last German emperor, and Reich actually means empire. The Roman Empire is also called Römisches Reich.
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#55SuSE was my first Linux system and it helped a lot to spark my interest. Yast (software manager) and SaX (XFree86 configuration tool) were a Godsend for a noob like me in 199x. It's still solid today, and I hold it in high regards, even if I moved to greener Linux pastures.
I see what you did there :)
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#56SUSE has always been this perennial figure in the Linux world for me; the Linux Distro that isn't talked about often, but is generally liked and respected, by most people who use it. I ran OpenSUSE for about a year in 2013-2014, and it did sort of have the Just Works nature to it: things did more or less what I expected them to do without much tinkering. It was the first Linux that I liked enough to be my sole operat…
I use it at (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, at work); I never particularly liked or disliked it; but once they adopted systemd - I lost respect for it.
Everyone craps on systemd, but I have never really had an issue with it. It does the job I want it to, I think a lot of the complaints are overblown.
Either way, doesn't every major Linux distro other than Gentoo use systemd now?
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#57SUSE has always been this perennial figure in the Linux world for me; the Linux Distro that isn't talked about often, but is generally liked and respected, by most people who use it. I ran OpenSUSE for about a year in 2013-2014, and it did sort of have the Just Works nature to it: things did more or less what I expected them to do without much tinkering. It was the first Linux that I liked enough to be my sole operat…
I picked OpenSUSE as my personal desktop 15 years ago because its YaST confuguration module helped with administration. Same positve experience, apart from the occasional hiccup updating NVIDIA proprietary drivers.
Yeah, the reason I used OpenSUSE is that someone told me that YaST was more or less analogous to the Windows Control Panel, and that SUSE was relatively friendly for people who had mostly used Windows. I think that description is fairly accurate, I didn't really much trouble navigating around SUSE.
I'm an annoying math person now so I use NixOS for everything, and I don't really plan on leaving any time soon, but if I did SUSE would honestly still be a contender.
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#58IMHO, Deutsche Linux-Distribution (DLD) was the first german linux distribution (first release in 1992).
So it's not just a meme that Germans like to put "Deutsche" in front of every product/company name, it's the reality. How imaginative, the marketing departments who come up with these names must be making bank.
It literally just meant a Linux distribution with German localization.
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#59The photo looks like it's an 80ies synth-pop band.
Also, "Sure, one could download all forty Slackware floppy disk images, but it would take quite a bit of time on a 28.8kbps modem"
Yes...yes it does.
On a more serious note, I miss the days when Linux and open source software where on the rise. Things weren't perfect, but there was a lot of idealism and a desire to build cool stuff and the whole "tech bro" thing wasn't what it is today.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use it at (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, at work); I never particularly liked or disliked it; but once they adopted systemd - I lost respect for it.
100% of people who dislike systemd can't come up with a better solution that solves all of the problems that systemd was created to solve.
> 100% of people who dislike systemd can't come up with a better solution that solves all of the problems that systemd was created to solve.
Perhaps because these people consider that solving all the problems that systemd claims to solve does introduce too many other problems, so they tend to consider it to be the better solution to solve, say, 90 % of the problems that systemd solves, but introduce less new problems.