Picture of my daily driver machine installing openSUSE.

  • Bombastic@sopuli.xyz
    61·
    1 day ago

    Tumbleweed

    Beyond based

    PS. If you plan on only using Wayland, you still need to have X11 installed. Don’t ask me why, don’t ask me how, I only know that without X11 my system would only login to shell

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Great to see another person moving to Linux and OpenSuSE. My only caution if this is your first time with Linux is that a point release like OpenSuSE Leap is probably a better place to start than Tumbleweed. I’m on Tumbleweed and it’s generally good but I have had a few things break over the last couple of years, often fixed at next update in fairness but it is frustrating even as an experienced user. I have also had to reinstall Tumbleweed on one occasion; it wasn’t a big deal as I’d set up a separate Home and System partition. Tumbleweed is great but it is a rolling release and even though it’s a well tested one rolling releases are always riskier in terms of things breaking.

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      11 hours ago

      I appreciate the cautionary tale. I already had to reinstall. I gave KDE another shot thinking previous issues were from the old Lenovo Yoga or distro I used it with. Unfortunately, that wasn’t so. Even though I intentionally took my time customizing the layout, somehow I had some KDE thing crash twice, the main display had shifted to only showing have the page, like it was stuck under the monitor, and after a reboot to fix that problem it had made it so the context menu on the main desktop was not showing all the options.

      While I’m not a fan of GNOME, per say, as I am not a fan of Apple style docks for a taskbar, I never had issues with it, so I am using that instead of KDE.

  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Welcome to the club! I installed Open Sousa Tumbleweed this summer.

    (It’s similar to OpenSUSE, but has a marching band theme by default. This is totally a real thing, and it wasn’t just a speech to text failure.)

  • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi
    3·
    1 day ago

    Welcome to the light side. I’m a happy Tumbleweed user for many years now. Love that Hitchhiker’s guide reference .

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
      2·
      10 hours ago

      I wasn’t sure if that reference would fit here so I’m glad you enjoyed it! I am diggin’ the experience so far. Haven’t gamed on it, yet, but after reinstalling for GNOME, it’s been smooth sailing!

  • NutWrench@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    If you’re still on the fence about switching to Linux, try downloading a Live Linux USB image and booting it from a USB stick. This lets you try out Linux without changing anything on your Windows drive. The Live version will also let you see if Linux detects all your computer’s hardware before you install it for real.

    I recommend Linux Mint for beginners.

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      10 hours ago

      I had already done that before pulling the trigger. I used Obsidian to get a listing of distros and then took notes as I tested them on my Lenovo Yoga 720 laptop. Obviously, not the same as my daily gaming rig, but it gave me a good enough approximation for how well I’d like some of the distros I tried. In the end it was Mint Cinnamon (currently installed on my Yoga) or openSUSE. I eventually had to reinstall openSUSE last night when KDE started giving me trouble. It’s probably the last time I try KDE for a while. I just don’t seem to have good luck with it all three times I’ve tried it across different distros.

      Either way GNOME is working great this morning and I’m working on getting stuff customized!!

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      10 hours ago

      Is it cause I’m regedit? I am just a lowly Windows registry looking for love!

  • Palacegalleryratio [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    8 hours ago

    OpenSuse is a left field choice. Nothing wrong with it - just not a typical first distro. Hope you have a great time with it! I recommend using it for a solid month then working on a windows pc for a day - you’ll be blown away by how asinine windows is once you’ve got used to Linux.

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      11 hours ago

      I played with it a bit. Can’t remember my thoughts on it but when I was testing different distros for myself, my wife, and in-laws, I took notes for it.

  • relic4322@lemmy.ml
    1·
    1 day ago

    Funny enough I just changed my daily driver to Linux as well. Long time Linux power user, stuck with a Windows main. Finally made the transition, couldn’t be happier.

    Congrats

    • regedit@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      10 hours ago

      Ditto, friend. Which DE did you end up going with? I started with KDE but had bad luck with app crashes last night and odd desktop displays so I reinstalled fresh with GNOME (didn’t need to worry about reinstalling vs switching DEs cause there wasn’t much done with the OS by that point).