I’ve dabbled with Linux over the years, first with Ubuntu in the early 2010s, then Elementary OS when that dropped, and a few years ago I really enjoyed how customizable the gui was with Xubuntu. I was able to make it look just like WIndows 2000 which was really cool.
Which current distro has the best GUI, in your opinion? I find modern Ubuntu to feel a little basic and cheap. I guess I don’t really like modern Gnome. I’m currently using Windows 10 LTSC which is probably the best possible version of Windows, but I’d jump to linux if I could find a distro with a gui that feels at least as polished and feature rich as Windows 10 LTSC.
I’ll be completely honest: I loved openSUSE, but they are moving towards a Gnome-first, immutable operating system. Instead of sending more resources towards making KDE work better on microOS, they forked it to die alone.
Since Aeon is the future of openSUSE, and the dev is openly hostile towards KDE, it’s time to move on. I have removed all of the installs of Tumbleweed and Leap and will no longer recommend it moving forward.
I am now on Debian with KDE and it works fine. I went to openSUSE because of KDE, and I left openSUSE because of KDE.
I was a major opensuse tumbleweed fan to start, but this period has been fading for me as well. I can’t really put my finger on it, but several prominent members of the community just seem to always rub me the wrong way. It’s kind of like being told to go do it yourself if you want to see something done, but then being told you did the thing you wanted done wrong or you’re using OpenSUSE incorrectly if you feel the urge to do the things you tried to do. I’ve also noted the hostility to KDE in various exchanges as well, which is very weird since a lot of KDE development is apparently done on OpenSUSE.
I have a major server running MicroOS that I’m looking to ditch and do a re-install on, but “stable, rolling” is a hard niche to fill when you might be looking for some extra kernel features that can’t/don’t ship directly in the Linux kernel. I’m stuck for now, but keen on the lookout for a decent replacement that fills the same niche as MicroOS for a server.
Yeah, I didn’t want to get into the specifics since that is beyond the scope of the thread here, but I completely agree with you regarding the hostility and pompous attitudes. There is a clear vision of future openSUSE as a containerized Gnome desktop, a shittier Silverblue, which is why I decided to move on after so long on tumbleweed and Leap.
Crazy! Also I found the installer to be pretty weird.
I think I got it working now, the LUKS screen is blue and shows an error…
And Fedora Kinoite is not Beta at all. Its just as stable as KDE can be it seems, it has some weird timing bugs sometimes, but it works well and is very up to date.
Ublue is also essential, it bloats it a bit but thats nessecary.