Picture of my daily driver machine installing openSUSE.
Tumbleweed
Beyond based
PS. If you plan on only using Wayland, you still need to have X11 installed. Don’t ask me why, don’t ask me how, I only know that without X11 my system would only login to shell
One of us, one of us!
Good on you! And good luck!
Thank you! :D
Great choice of distro!
Troublefree for almost 2 years now.
Same here, the only time I had a problem was the Nvidia driver updating and breaking the compatibility.
It was Nvidia, it is always Nvidia…
As Torvalds said,
FUCK NVIDIA! (Well, he did not explicitly say that; but he gave nvidia the middle finger)
I think that counts as Universal Sign Language.
That’s what I like to hear!!
Wiiiiiiiiide progress bar
It was also showing the same bar on all 3-monitors! I wanted my neighbors to know just how hard I was installing Linux!
Main con of the ultrawide screens: everything installs/downloads slower
But the main benefit is that you can see the install/download progress in more detail.
Just tilt the monitor clockwise. Gravity will help.
Great choice
Welcome to the light side. I’m a happy Tumbleweed user for many years now. Love that Hitchhiker’s guide reference .
Hint: It’s 42
Don’t forget and bring the towel.
SPOILERS!!
I wasn’t sure if that reference would fit here so I’m glad you enjoyed it! I am diggin’ the experience so far. Haven’t gamed on it, yet, but after reinstalling for GNOME, it’s been smooth sailing!
Wewt! I’m actually doing a rescuzilla backup of my Windows box right now because I’m about to install CachyOS on my Surface.
Nice! Yeah I made a full VHDX of my C: drive prior to pulling the trigger on this.
c/usernamechecksout /s
😬 sshhhhh, don’t tell anyone!
Zorin Core is solid too
I played with it a bit. Can’t remember my thoughts on it but when I was testing different distros for myself, my wife, and in-laws, I took notes for it.
Funny enough I just changed my daily driver to Linux as well. Long time Linux power user, stuck with a Windows main. Finally made the transition, couldn’t be happier.
Congrats
What distro did you go with?
Ditto, friend. Which DE did you end up going with? I started with KDE but had bad luck with app crashes last night and odd desktop displays so I reinstalled fresh with GNOME (didn’t need to worry about reinstalling vs switching DEs cause there wasn’t much done with the OS by that point).
Welcome to the club! I installed Open Sousa Tumbleweed this summer.
(It’s similar to OpenSUSE, but has a marching band theme by default. This is totally a real thing, and it wasn’t just a speech to text failure.)
Can you link it? I can’t seem to find a page for it.
I like that you as user “regedit” are installing openSUSE - I like :-D
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.
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.
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.
I’ve had things break on both. So I gave up and changed to Kubuntu.
