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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Great to see another person moving to Linux and OpenSuSE. My only caution if this is your first time with Linux is that a point release like OpenSuSE Leap is probably a better place to start than Tumbleweed. I'm on Tumbleweed and it's generally good but I have had a few things break over the last couple of years, often fixed at next update in fairness but it is frustrating even as an experienced user. I have also had to reinstall Tumbleweed on one occasion; it wasn't a big deal as I'd set up a separate Home and System partition. Tumbleweed is great but it is a rolling release and even though it's a well tested one rolling releases are always riskier in terms of things breaking.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago

    I appreciate the cautionary tale. I already had to reinstall. I gave KDE another shot thinking previous issues were from the old Lenovo Yoga or distro I used it with. Unfortunately, that wasn't so. Even though I intentionally took my time customizing the layout, somehow I had some KDE thing crash twice, the main display had shifted to only showing have the page, like it was stuck under the monitor, and after a reboot to fix that problem it had made it so the context menu on the main desktop was not showing all the options.

    While I'm not a fan of GNOME, per say, as I am not a fan of Apple style docks for a taskbar, I never had issues with it, so I am using that instead of KDE.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    In other news, I actually ended up on openSUSE Leap 16.0 after it released. Originally, I upgraded from Leap 15.6 to 16.0, but I opted to do it fresh, take my time, log all my changes, and ended up with KDE Plasma 6 for my DE. Of all the DE's, KDE has the most features I want, with the fewer annoyances I don't.

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