As a proud member of the open source community since 1995, as being part of the OSS revolution as a #RedHat, #Canonical and #SuSE employee, with regrets I have to admit @geerlingguy is not totally wrong:
Wow!
Over 4% marketshare today is simply mindblowing. What would that be in terms of users? surely over a 100 milion.. maybe 200 milion ?? WTF can you believe these numbers??
throws me back to when i first got to using #linux as a daily driver propper daily driver. Where after a brief wrestle with #Suse, I settled on #Ubuntu 10.04 and many versions after that. Last few years being happy on #Manjaro with #KDE Plasma.
Ha! Le casse della #coop#svizzera girano con #Linux! Oggi hanno rebootato tutte insieme in stile aggiornamento forzato di windows (mentre stavo pagando. Si saranno scioccate per lo stato del mio conto?). Ad ogni modo molto molto male #SUSE 😜
In a surprise twist, our #fosdem2024 BoF session "Special Purpose Operating Systems: The Next Step in OS Evolution or One-Trick Ponies?" was greenlit this morning!
:linux: #MyFirstDistro was SuSE Linux 7.1 or 7?, it came with KDE, Staroffice, Netscape and the graphical installer YAST on a bunch of CD-ROMs with a thick manual in a retail box. While SuSE and KDE were already well supported and user-friendly, Linux really came a long way since then.
I'm now using POP!_OS daily for over a year and couldn't be happier, it's such a joy to use.
My first distro was SUSE (then stylized as SuSE) after it was acquired by Novell in like 2003-2004. I used it with the default UI, which I believe was Gnome at the time.
I later tried out Ubuntu and it's KDE cousin Kubuntu via CDs they would mail you.
Currently, I'm using Ubuntu on my personal laptop.
Mine begun with the trusty old #Debian - I remember Sarge being a big deal - I've ordered a copy on multiple CDs.
Then I've got a job, found myself confronted with #SUSE and #YAST... didn't know what to do with all that automated user-friendlyness, my boss insisted. I knew how you juggle conf files, but this strange yast thing? The same boss got me a Celeron box as a 1-man- helpdesk workstation. He also decided to run dissimilar HDDs on a HW-RAID controller.
I just installed #suse#Tumbleweed on my older #thinkpad and so far its pretty good, but I am having an issue that I can't start #xfce after logging in, it goes to a failsafe and I have to load it from the console there which is weird, Any thoughts?
It's been kind of wild how up until June of this year, I hadn't run SUSE since 2006 and now I'm managing a whole slew of SUSE servers. Enterprise environments move painfully slow, except when they don't.
Wegen eines Buchungsfehlers musste ich innerhalb von zwei Wochen meinen #SCA für SLES 15 durchziehen. Dadurch, dass ich die #LPIC1 zuvor schon gemacht habe, war das tatsächlich auch machbar.
Nun darf ich mich offiziell SUSE Certified Administrator for #SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 (sca_sles15) nennen!
Ich habe vor über 20 Jahren mit SUSE Linux angefangen und bin heute in der #opensuse-Community aktiv. Daher freut mich das besonders.
This week, we have #Ubuntu not providing a way to install local deb packages graphically in 23.10, something I missed in my review. We also have the new Executive Director for GNOME raising some eyebrows (spoiler: I don’t get the negative reactions), and we have #SUSE working on a new installer to replace the venerable YAST, plus a lot more:
I wish #SUSE/#openSUSE would just enable #dnf out of box for non-transactional variants. #zypper is comparatively slower/clunky and there's not a clearly unsolveable issue with their mutual co-existence. #Linux