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    Phoronix: OpenSUSE Developers Tackle Redesigning YaST

    For users of the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed distribution, there has been a major rework of YaST taking place...

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  • #2
    linux is so versatile. yast can only cover so much.

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    • #3
      Great news. OpenSuse (with KDE) is my favourite distro to put on computers for "casual" computer users. YAST provides a graphical administration tool so they can do stuff on their own without asking too much.

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      • #4
        OpenSuse is my favorite too, but for now I'm using fedora with gnome+wayland. KDE 5.4 was too unstable for me in the Leap. Will go back when they update KDE with a newer version with wayland support.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by boffo View Post
          OpenSuse is my favorite too, but for now I'm using fedora with gnome+wayland. KDE 5.4 was too unstable for me in the Leap. Will go back when they update KDE with a newer version with wayland support.

          Why didn't you go to GNOME on openSUSE? It's equally supported as KDE, and it has Wayland support also

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          • #6
            Originally posted by sysrich View Post


            Why didn't you go to GNOME on openSUSE? It's equally supported as KDE, and it has Wayland support also
            I didn't know if there was proper Gnome+wayland support, so I tried Weston first and launch some Qt programs to see if they run. They did not, so I didn't wont to mess with configurations + There are some things where that the Leap fails.
            1) Mesa drivers. I don't know why, but the OpenSuse's Mesa is not stable, it crashes a lot, to fix this I installed the Pontostroy Mesa drivers, they are stable + faster, sounds strange, because Pontostory gives the more recent Mesa in development, not the stable one.
            2) Updating Mesa with Pontostroy means that I will be frequenly update Mesa. OpenSuse Leap unfortunately updates Mesa without updating the dependencies, so a lot of times I ended up with a non working laptop.
            I still like OpenSuse, I've been using OpenSuse for over 10 years and I know that sometimes a not very good realese comes out, this time mainly do to Kde 5.4. I wish they would update to 5.5 but they a not going to update till the next "Servis Pack".
            I still think that Yast is superior to others, The installation process in Opensuse is better, It always recognize users in the /home. Fedora didn't + the installer crashes/freezes a lot of times.

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            • #7
              You could also use Tumbleweed instead of Leap.

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              • #8
                YaST is so genius, every time I'm looking for a solution for something how to do it, I end up Googling with the result pointing to do it somewhere in YaST :-D YaST alone is worth a study. Understand everything in YaST and you're hired ;-)

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