After a couple years on Fedora I decided to do one more Distro hop- to one I have little experience with, openSUSE.

But it seems the everything from the installer, philosophy, package manager, configs, and general way of working is just very different than every Distro I’ve tried before (Debian/*Buntu, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo)

Like what’s up with YaST? It’s like a system-wide settings/configs program plus a package manager front end unique to openSUSE?

And to update grub it seems the best command is “update-bootloader” - for example. This isn’t standard on anything else afaik. Is there anywhere other than practice I can learn all of these quirks?

    • chri_ho@feddit.de
      22·
      1 year ago

      Both have their origin in Europe. openSUSE has its origins in Germany, that’s why it is still very popular there. Mandrake had its roots im France.

        • chri_ho@feddit.de
          18·
          1 year ago

          I think so. GNOME is more an American thing what you can see from its similarities to the Mac OS desktop layout which is still not that popular in Europe. KDE is also a German project and more similar to the Windows layout. And Windows in the last time often steals ideas from KDE^^

          • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubOP
            5·
            1 year ago

            People always say GNOME is more like macOS - but as someone who really likes the macOS UI I really cannot stand GNOME3. I’ve tried but I just can’t do it

          • Bali@lemmy.cafe
            2·
            1 year ago

            But Flatpak is very European. And KDE Kirigami is very Asian. Shall we call it best of world model? 🤭

        • anteaters@feddit.deDeutsch
          5·
          1 year ago

          I always had the impression that OpenSuse and especially KDE is most popular in Germany.