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jarkko

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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timojyrinki@mastodon.social

Timo Jyrinki

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@jarkko
For certain reasons I've run it on my work desktop for the last years. The quality is indeed quite good, at worst it's like latest upstream kernel trouble etc. openQA keeps the standard stuff from (badly) breaking.

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timojyrinki@mastodon.social

Timo Jyrinki

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@jarkko
Maybe some things not as pre-configured as an for example Ubuntu, you'll find extra packages you'll want to install (I have a list of some but currently afk).

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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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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vbabka

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@jarkko yes, good choice!
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johanneskastl@digitalcourage.social

Johannes Kastl

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@jarkko Absolutely. Rock solid for me on both work and private laptop for > 7 years...

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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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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timojyrinki@mastodon.social

Timo Jyrinki

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@jarkko
Right. And yes Intel and AMD work great out of the box. On desktop I'm so used to Ubuntu Dock (dash-to-dock) that I'm using that on openSUSE too. Actually my latest list of packages to install is relatively short, mostly just my favorite tools but also some that are more installed by default on other distros like gstreamer-plugins-vaapi, sshfs, bluez-auto-enable-devices.

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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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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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jarkko

Jarkko Sakkinen

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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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