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Jarkko Sakkinen

Installing #OpenSUSE #Tumbleweed to my desktop. Seems like a good sweet spot having latest packages and professional QA for a workstation.
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 1 year ago
@timojyrinki I need just latest versions of git, nvim etc. and stable desktop. The main reason for switching from Debian. Especially I've been frustrated on downloading nvim binary from Github all the time since nvim version sticks at 0.7.something. I hate configuring my desktop and that is already way too much overhead :-) Other than latest packages, it is all the same for me what distro it is tbh.

I mean all tuning energy is already overconsumed by work so unnecessary extras just for the joy is not my thing. I even gave my NVIDIA RTX card to my daughter so that she can play some new Harry Potter game and bought Arc A770 because usually Intel GPU's have better chances to work out-of-the-box (even tho it is getting better for NVIDIA but I think this still a good bet).
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@jarkko Absolutely. Rock solid for me on both work and private laptop for > 7 years...

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@vbabka i guess so too. do not need much else than up-to-date packages, and the QA is probably on average best within rolling release distributions so pretty objective choice tbh :-)
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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 1 year ago
@timojyrinki I just always use defacto gnome, however they feel to package it. the only savvy thing is probably using #alacritty instead of the default terminal (whatever it is called these days) because tabs are extra clutter when you have a #tmux session.

and right, because alacritty configuration is just a single file, i.e. easy to store to git with the rest of the dotfiles, and having terminal configured correctly whenever needed is pretty essential...
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@timojyrinki not that i like always what they do but on average one problem away from life when you can live with the defaults dictated to you :---)
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