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Why OpenSuse is said to be KDE Plasma first? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I have heard that for a long time, but lately since the Red Hat and RHEL thing happened I have heard it more.

I've never given OpenSuse a try, not really because I don't like it or anything just because I've been fine with my current distro, but I've been thinking about it and I'll possibly install it in a VM and if I like it I'll install it on my personal machine.

The only thing that really concerns me are the Nvidia proprietary drivers, they are installed during the installation when it detects my hardware or I have to install them manually?

Edit: After a while playing with the VM I decided to install it on my PC and my goodness, it's great! Among the things to highlight, I find it incredible that they have things like Yuzu or RPCS3 in their available repositories, in my previous distro I had to use flatpak for that or appimages and many times those programs did not recognize my GPU (possibly because I used Wayland). I also love that it has apparmor installed by default and even that I can access snapshots from grub!

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[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fedora seems to me a wonderful distribution and what I like the most is that it is like the "Vanilla" flavor of each DE and that it is really innovative. I've tried their Gnome and Plasma flavors and it's been pretty good, except for a few things:

  1. Inability to install Nvidia drivers: In the past, maybe a year or year and a half ago I tried Fedora but when I installed Nvidia drivers and rebooted the system I had the problem that I always had a black screen, I reinstalled several times and I exhausted myself Now that I think about it, it is very possible that this is a problem of some Wayland dependency in Plasma, because that has happened to me in other distros and I simply changed to X11 and installed said package, or I could do it from TTY, but I never thought about that .

  2. I have nothing against snaps or flatpaks and it seems ridiculous to argue about that, everyone uses what works for them and likes it and in my case I use all the available package formats, but there are some Firefox extensions that I don't they work because of the sandbox environment that flatpak provides, and some other programs that have a similar problem.

I guess all that will be fixed, one day I'll give it a try again.