5 Mar
2024
5 Mar
'24
12:42 a.m.
Gianluca Interlandi composed on 2024-03-04 16:07 (UTC-0800):
deloptes wrote:
>> I'm curious because the future of openSUSE
(non-tumbleweed) is a bit
>> uncertain. I'm not sure I want the immutable/ALP version that openSUSE
>> 16.x may be provided as.
> I used openSUSE only once may be in 2001. Later I
saw openSUSE on commercial
> products.
> Moveing to Debian will require some relearning but IMO it pays off.
Maybe I can find a tutorial for openSUSE users
migrating to Debian.
Something that lists:
rpm -> dpkg
zypper -> apt-get
etc.
I would also have to get used to not having Yast.
Freshly released KDE 3.0 and YaST (*Y*et *A*nother *S*etup *T*ool) were what
hooked me on SUSE 8.x originally. YaST is both setup tool, and installer, whose UI
is logically identical whether using text mode or GUI mode.
With decades of experience behind me I don't use YaST much as setup tool much any
more, but I find it far and away the best Gnu/Linux distro installer bar none,
with equivalent appreciation applicable to zypper as cmdline package manager.
Were openSUSE 16 to turn out to be unacceptable regression, I would have little
problem switching to Mageia, assuming it still exists. If not, most likely any
switch of primary OS would be to Debian Stable, assuming TDE still exists for it. ;)
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