Picture of my daily driver machine installing openSUSE.
Wiiiiiiiiide progress bar
Main con of the ultrawide screens: everything installs/downloads slower
Just tilt the monitor clockwise. Gravity will help.
But the main benefit is that you can see the install/download progress in more detail.
It was also showing the same bar on all 3-monitors! I wanted my neighbors to know just how hard I was installing Linux!
Great choice of distro!
Troublefree for almost 2 years now on Tumbleweed.
Same here, the only time I had a problem was the Nvidia driver updating and breaking the compatibility.
It was Nvidia, it is always Nvidia…
As Torvalds said,
FUCK NVIDIA! (Well, he did not explicitly say that; but he gave nvidia the middle finger)
I think that counts as Universal Sign Language.
Great choice
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.
Zorin Core is solid too
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.
IIRC you can even install stuff and more to try out software.
I agree on trying the live boot first. I played around with the live boot for a week, and ended up installing mint as dual boot when I got frustrated about not being able to save files, save settings etc. I was barely using Windows at that point.
Agree, a USB stick live install is a good way to test - users should just bear in mind it is slower than a real install as USB drives are not as fast as internal hard drives. Once the OS is loaded fully it will feel reasonably snappy but still every piece of software you launch will take longer to load than a real install, and the bigger the software the longer it will take to load.
I also tended to recommend Linux Mint for beginners although I think I’m moving more towards recommending OpenSuSE Leap. The reason being it ships with KDE which is a slick interface with a Windows like set up by default (although very customisable - users can create MacOS or Gnome like interfaces with relative ease if they prefer) and gives a better idea of what modern Linux is capable of than Cinnamon in my opinion. Also KDE’s Discover app makes it easy to install software, comparable to Mint’s software store. Mint still has many more guides online but they’re often around terminal use and APT based solutions, and I’m beginning to think that is actually a bad thing. Most stuff for mainstream users can be done via the GUI, and KDE offer’s a great GUI. Plus Flatpak is a far better way of installing custom software than the APT recommendations I still see widely shared, so I think it’s actually better to move people away from Mint. Personally I think OpenSuSE Leap is the better option (and possible Fedora KDE Plasma edition although I am less familiar with it).
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.)
Can you link it? I can’t seem to find a page for it.
Welcome to the light side. I’m a happy Tumbleweed user for many years now. Love that Hitchhiker’s guide reference .
Hint: It’s 42
Don’t forget and bring the towel.
One of us, one of us!
Good luck :)
c/usernamechecksout /s
Good on you! And good luck!
Even regedit hates windows regedit…
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
