hmm so I was a manjaro fanboy not too long ago, I can see why people liked that flavor of linux.
my day to day pc runs ubuntu with a cinnamon desktop, just cos i like how it feels from a UI point of view.
I am curious about OpenSUSE how is it with drivers / supported applications, etc
Does it play well with both AMD and Nvidia hardware?
One of the most stable actually. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed(rolling release) is what I run on my lapatop, and on my server I run OpenSUSE Leap(stable). That are based of SEL (SUSE Enterprise Linux) which is a competitor for RHEL. Its a little bit more complex than Ubuntu flavors, and it is RPM based, but it is quite marvelous and wildly developed.
They have a Chameleon as a logo.
I'm not a fan of zypper. But the OpenSUSE installer is by far superior to every installer ever.
OpenSuse is one of the leading edge stable operating systems, it's innovative with features like YaST, it has a desktop that is very familiar or similar to Windows 7 IMHO, with YaST you can do just about anything without seeing a CLI.
So the type of software I use on linux right now for work is:
Filezilla - ftp
Atom - programming
MySQL - Database
KdenLive - Video editing
VLC - multimedia consumption
Will the above apps work fine on OpenSUSE?
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OpenSUSE is very much still tied heavily to novell and they work closely with microsoft. Its probably the MOST stable workstation distribution. Jump in get an opinion. YaST2 is a god send. You will know what I mean later.
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am sold.. will download ISO asap ^_^
Use Rufus to load it to your USB or burn it to DVD.. Dont use any other tool.. The others fuck shit up
sudo dd bs=4M if=/path/to/X.iso of=/dev/sdX && sync
This method worked for me with no issues flashing Tumbleweed to my flash drive, and then installing from that onto my laptop.
Thats if he is currently on linux IDK what his setup is
currently on ubuntu 16
Yeah, and Rufus for sure if he was on Windows. It's just always seemed to work for me when something line Linux Live USB Creator (LiLi) did not.