Im curious about your WINE comment, because you can go into the dialog that selects which version of Windows it “emulates”. The drop down has what looks like every release of windows back to DOS.
As for can’t collaborate, that depends on the industry. Teamcenter PLM and Siemens NX CAD work on both RHEL and SUSE desktop. When W10 came out it made those programs less performant so I switched to OpenSUSE and installed the NX CAD to get performance back.
My 2 cents, OpenSUSE Leap is stable as hell. lots of QA happening with their automated testing, and keeping in lockstep with SUSE releases (now sharing same binaries). Every distro upgrade has gone flawlessly, but when I have had the urge to tinker and do stupid things inf config files the built in btrfs snapshots have been a godsend.
I haven’t had issues finding packages, often they may not be on the dev websites that host a deb package, but the main repos contain the general tools, if you need something more “fringe”,independent dev or new, then software.opensuse.Org allows you to turn on a search by community or experimental packages (which would be like Arch AUR and contains a lot of rpms) so you can install directly from the website, it will add the neccessary community repos during the install. Or if you don’t want to pollute your repo list they typically they have the option : Grab Binary directly. Or ther is an OPI ? Package you install that lets you search locally for community packages. For commerical apps like teamviewer , yubikey,webex etc the rpms were all available to support corporate SUSE users. If you still can’t find an rpm, then you run the Alien tool which converts a deb to the RPM installation format. The only issue I had once was the community package had dependencies that were not contained in the users repo so I had to find the dependencies and install those first. That felt like 1990s
No problem. Happy New Year. Also it is .org i mistakenly put .com for the opensuse software site. ( I will edit post) Also I should mention if you dont see an officially supported rpm on the software site, it does not mean it isn’t there, it now seems to mean it is in the main repos. I think years back they would all show, but maybe due to shared binaries with SUSE they don’t bother listing on the software.opensuse.org site. So best to check locally in the YAST or Zypper search of your repos first.
It seems something changed on MS end though because I have control of what MFA i use on our corporate acxount, which was setup with Yubikey, until about a month ago when this Use Your Outlook Mobile started on it’s own
Whatever it is, somebody at Microsoft made a mistake; it should not prompt you for Outlook Mobile Auth code when that is the actual app you are trying to sign in to, and have no way of retrieving that code. it should have review MS app and if it is Outlook Mobile then move to the next MFA option in your security list.
In this meme yeah, in my account I get the “try another way” link to let me go back to Yubikey auth option. But it shouldn’t default to Outlook auth if your are trying to sign in to Outlook, that is just lack of forethought
They are succeptible to magnetic degradation, its why you go to open a jpeg from 8 years ago and some are suddenly corrupt. You have to leave them in a RAID setup with sonething self healing like ZFS. They are way more reliable than cold storage SSD ( which can start bitrot in as little as a month) but for cold storage magnetic tape is better
Its not just significant magnetic field ( apparently we do have geo magnetic storms that corrupt data) it is that assigning the 1 /0 bit is not permanent. The 1 or 0 you store fades with time as it wants to lose its assigned magnetism. You might be fine for 10 years, or you might lose a critical bit corrupting a file. it is why archival experts suggest if it is critical data stored offline you need to store on two or more different mediums, because “1 copy is not a backup”. Anyway, we are getting deep in the weeds of data entropy and recovery and I think your original comment was meant as being helpful to the lay-person…whom may not actually care to much if they lose a file or two, unless it is a crypto wallet key–i would trust those M series BluRay archival format since the laser alters the disk, but printing out on paper as another copy
When somebody says one of the first it implies by time (and US was 30 years later. ) Thus why that link I posted rates them by creation date. If you had claimed by best subway by milage I would link to which one ranks them by order of mileage. If I feel like losing. LOL It isn’t a zero sum game we are playing, Just facts I linked. Sorry you feel so offended. Hope you have a good new year.
Yeah, by saying first it would mislead people into thinking USA were pioneers, but they were actually fifth because it took USA longer to institute. Not judging, just saying…and it makes sense because UK has been a country with cities for thousands of years, while USA is relatively new…with a slower need to get people moved
Nice. That is what started me into Linux. Wife’s 2011 laptop became useless with W10 upgrade, now it runs linux and she has fast browsing, zoom calls etc, and it is peppy like a new computer.
It is arbitrary: my HP Zbook initially offered W11 upgrade, but we use corporate stuff and our software wasn’t certified on W11 yet so I held off. Months later we get a notice that the Zbook no longer meets requirements for W11 LOL
The last few years have had great improvements. For any average user (like a kid or adult that just browses web, streams video, zoom calls, etc) there is no reason a Linux desktop can’t be their main system.
It needs testing to ensure you get what you need, but I found printer support worked better on Linux for my obscure printer. If you setup a CUPS server then distros will automatically find the networked printers. SUSE/OpenSUSE also has a very good GUI printer admin with lots of automatic setup and auto driver downloads…makes it so easy.
I have used nVidia on OpenSUSE since 2017, it has been 100% fine, no issues. it may help that nVidia maintains their own OpenSUSE repo for leap and tumbleweed etc
I switched from Linux Mint which was the only distro I have ever used to OpenSuse Tumbleweed two weeks ago with the vanilla Gnome DE that it ships with and I just wanted to say; What an amazingly complete, modern, and productive combination....
All the things ypu said abouy GNOME and OpenSUSE I will give a +1. It really is polished and tweaked to be reliable. YAST is truly a great way to onboard to pinux withouy having to drop into CLI to configure things. I don’t think it is 100% Vanilla Gnome there are aome subtle things like OpenSUSE nautlius has a paste button, where as NixOS excludes this. While keyboard short cuts are OK, sometimes you want to just go into the hamburger menu and click paste without having to find white space in the list view to right click on. I have run it for about 7 years now, every distro upgrade has gone smooth.
I'm Done With Windows, Are you? (youtu.be)
Friendly reminder
This is your annual reminder to do a snapshot (timeshift or whatever you prefer) before doing relatively minor changes to your system....
Recursive authentication (lemmy.world)
Which pill do you choose? (i.imgur.com)
God bless the imperial system and bald eagles 🦅🦅🦅🦅 (oil too) (lemmus.org)
New laptop
Hi everyone!...
Linux reaches new high 3.82% (gs.statcounter.com)
Zorin OS 17: Linux for Windows Users | ExplainingComputers (www.youtube.com)
What Is Linux Mobile - technical explanation of the ecosystem for Linux on smartphones previously (often previosuly android) (connolly.tech)
OpenSuse TW + Gnome Appreciation Post
I switched from Linux Mint which was the only distro I have ever used to OpenSuse Tumbleweed two weeks ago with the vanilla Gnome DE that it ships with and I just wanted to say; What an amazingly complete, modern, and productive combination....