From CentOS to OpenSUSE Leap: How to Feel at Home

Post by tinus_hn » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 2:29 PM UTC

unmole wrote: post #11

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 to OpenSUSE after an year with Fedora and ~14 years on Ubuntu. The installer had me scratching my head. After my first attempt I too ended up having to enter the decryption key twice. The installer definitely could do with polish. Ubuntu's installer still remains the gold standard in terms of ease of use. After reinstallation with the correct configuration though, it was smooth sailing. The only other chan…

Post by unmole » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 3:27 PM UTC

lockhouse wrote: post #13

unmole wrote: post #11

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I switched to OpenSUSE after an year with Fedora and ~14 years on Ubuntu. The installer had me scratching my head. After my first attempt I too ended up having to enter the decryption key twice. The installer definitely could do with polish. Ubuntu's installer still remains the gold standard in terms of ease of use. After reinstallation with the correct configuration though, it was smooth sailing. The only other chan…

Personally I find Fedora's installer to be less intuitive than OpenSUSE. OpenSUSE is wizard style, while Fedora is just a page with all the options where click on the stuff you care about changing, some of which has sensible defaults and some of which is mandatory to visit. It's probably a lot more efficient once you're used to it, but it felt unintuitive the first time I used it.

Post by COGlory » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 5:37 PM 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 (…

Post by koushikg » Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 8:44 PM UTC

PlutoIsAPlanet wrote: post #10

koushikg wrote: post #5

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Arch Linux is your friend. You will find all the packages in AUR and answers you seek in documentation or with extremely active community. Not as ‘deep’ as gentoo and not as script kiddy as tumbleweed. I use Leap for servers and installed gentoo to learn things initially. Love all the distributions named here!

> not as script kiddy as tumbleweed The AUR is a literal definition of a script kiddie given its a repo of shell scripts to install things and not an actual package repo.

Post by COGlory » Tue, Jul 18, 2023, 4:48 AM UTC

evilmaidmyass wrote: post #19

COGlory wrote: post #15

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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 .