Re:SUSE to be acquired by EQT Partners
by krylon on Monday July 02, 2018 @11:33PM
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FWIW, I run Tumbleweed on my private desktop, and it works pretty well for the most part. The only major annoyance is that I have to reinstall the nVidia driver every time a new kernel comes around, but other than that, it is very nice.
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Re:SUSE to be acquired by EQT Partners
by loggedinmyphone on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @02:40AM
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Isn't there some kind of DKMS package to automate this?
The last time I checked, the only thing I could find were instruction on how to install the nVidia driver manually. Turns out nVidia has a repository for Tumbleweed! =D
Thank you so much for making me look it up!
Re:SUSE to be acquired by EQT Partners
by loggedinmyphone on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @04:19AM
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Very cool, I've been wanting to try Tumbleweed as it looks like the most noob-friendly rolling-release distro. Glad to hear the positive reports.
Just to be clear, things do break a little sometimes. But on the plus-side, openSUSE uses btrfs snapshots - every time updates are installed, the system creates two snapshots, one before and one after installing the updates. So if something breaks, one can always roll back to a known good state and wait for a couple of days before giving updates another try.