in ♥️ with linux

After some Linux distro hopping (Fedora, Debian) I finally came back to the distro with which I had my first Linux experiences in the mid-90s: openSUSE. I have to say, a lot has happened during this time and I am particularly fond of the rolling release Tumbleweed.

Tumbleweed is a rolling release distro, i.e. there are no versions. The system updates itself constantly. What is different with tumbleweed, however, is that new packages are first run through a test system and then published as a snapshot.

Speaking of snapshots: After each installation, the system automatically creates a snapshot and if something goes wrong ... simply revert to a previous version.

This brings stability, but also always very up-to-date packages.

Basically, I have also found (almost) no software that is not available for tumbleweed. This means that I have not yet needed to install anything via Flatpak.

So no problem to use a release candidate of Gimp 3 or Gnome 47. But smaller and newer projects such as Niri are also quickly installed.

Thus: I could also rename this blog ‘in love with opensuse’. I am so very enthusiastic and actually a little bit in love.