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8.7 from 343 review(s)
Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-08-11
Votes: 29
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very professional system, really well buiilt, once you understand a few commands to use the package manager, your really flying with suse tumbleweed, they are, (to update repositories - sudo zypper ref) (to update packages, -sudo zypper update) (to install any security updates and bug fixes - sudo zypper patch) (to install newly reccomended - sudo zypper inr) - (then to install all other required codecs, - sudo zypper install opi and finally we run the command, opi codecs reboot the machine as usual between the updates and your good to go with the suse system, it is very good, very good quality, i couldn't fault it, once all is setup anyone can use this system and benefit, new user or old, really very good, responsive and beautifully presented,
my machine lenovo t480 thinkpad, 8gb ram, nothing special, but the distro runs perfectly, would recommend it to anyone,
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-08-03
Votes: 20
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I was curious about what immutable distros were and because I have experience with openSUSE I decided to try MicroOS / Aeon
After a couple of days I must say that I'm impressed, I didn't mind using flatpak only as my workflow IS flatpak only and it has been for a long while now, at first I was surprised because it is completely vanilla, like there is barely anything installed, aside from tweaks, extensions and Firefox I think there is nothing else installed
I was used to install codecs on any post install of openSUSE but it isn't needed on MicroOS / Aeon because codecs are included in most flatpaks, so I installed my usual work apps and here I am
Overall the experience can be considered as "boringly stable" because there isn't much going on, but I love it! I would compare an immutable distro to Debian stable, but of course if you like tinkering, customization and / or you depend on native packages this isn't for you of course
I think I haven't even used the terminal, as updates are mostly done with GNOME software but I still do sudo transactional-update dup (which is needed as Aeon does not use Zypper) from time to time and just restart your PC, It isn't needed to do it everyday and you can easily do it every week or two just like TW and you will not have any problems
If I had t give it some criticism it would be that it does not have YaST which is signature of openSUSE and that the installer while similar to TW and Leap it is a little different and with more of a focus on a Server (which I don't care about) but still does the job
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-08-02
Votes: 7
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I prefer rolling releases to "stable" distros (stable, yeah, but with an old kernel). I like that everything works, especially now that I have new hardware. I'm in love with Arch, but every time I put "pacman -Syu" I pray that the computer doesn't crash. Debian testing was working fine, but, as I often do with Debian, not quite right: I couldn't configure my scanner. Opensuse Tumbleweed has better hardware detectability, it's a rolling release and I don't have the feeling that the computer is going to crash after an update.
It took me a while to become friends with opensuse. Ubuntu and Arch were easy for me to set up, Debian was slow to set up and doesn't work very well on my hardware. Opensuse required knowledge to add codecs, repositories, etc. But most of the things I have installed by flatpak and I am happy with the distro. I began with Ubuntu/Debian, after i learned all about Arch and Gentoo, and my last distro has been Fedora/Opensuse. I like rpm's distro. Fedora its not rolling. Pclinuxos is a retro-wave, i prefer beautiful things.
Wine doesn´t run as well on opensuse as on ubuntu or debian. Mi old "Sid Meiers Civilization II" doesn´t run and its a pitty, i love old games. Other things work well. I ve installed tumbleweed on my desktop pc and on my laptop. Good Job, friends.
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