After a couple years on Fedora I decided to do one more Distro hop- to one I have little experience with, openSUSE.

But it seems the everything from the installer, philosophy, package manager, configs, and general way of working is just very different than every Distro I’ve tried before (Debian/*Buntu, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo)

Like what’s up with YaST? It’s like a system-wide settings/configs program plus a package manager front end unique to openSUSE?

And to update grub it seems the best command is “update-bootloader” - for example. This isn’t standard on anything else afaik. Is there anywhere other than practice I can learn all of these quirks?

  • @[email protected]
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    181 year ago

    I think so. GNOME is more an American thing what you can see from its similarities to the Mac OS desktop layout which is still not that popular in Europe. KDE is also a German project and more similar to the Windows layout. And Windows in the last time often steals ideas from KDE^^

    • @[email protected]OP
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      81 year ago

      People always say GNOME is more like macOS - but as someone who really likes the macOS UI I really cannot stand GNOME3. I’ve tried but I just can’t do it

    • Bali
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      21 year ago

      But Flatpak is very European. And KDE Kirigami is very Asian. Shall we call it best of world model? 🤭

      • @joel_feila
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        11 year ago

        So would the American package format be .gun and take up way more space then needed

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Hahaha, .biggun is more appropriate.

          As we can see this in battlestations all the time and of course the American flag and the Texas flag on the wall.