My only issue is software availability and management. I use the Packman repository to manage codecs and I avoid using the change vendor option; i used to change the vendor every time and ended up with a broken system, so I reinstalled and also resized my partition because I dual boot. I haven’t had problems at all.

You only need to pay attention for your needs, I recently installed systemd networking packages because they don’t come preinstalled, and YaST is very helpful in some situations like installing patterns (multiple related packages at once), mostly desktop environments. I gotta say that the openSUSE Wiki may not be enough to understand, but there is an official forum and you can also look at the Arch wiki.

Btw, GNOME is the official DE used by the developers, but KDE Plasma works very well, and all of them update constantly, you’ll have available updates every week.

AnySoft is still testing because of all the functionality it has, which is massive compared to other keyboarda. I moved to a fork of OpenBoard, but I recognize all the effort put in both AnySoft and FlorisBoard

I have to use Chocolatey, Winget, Windows Store and invididual updating to use the tools I need in Windows, It’s ridiculous. I only use Flatpak and Zypper in my Linux partition.

I constantly ran --allow-vendor-change in openSUSE Tumbleweed. I had installed extra codecs with the OPI commando and always had problems with media files, mostly in Firefox. Also, I installed Kvantum and bugged some themes, disabled Akonadi and KDE was acting weird, etc.

Finally, I decided to delete the openSUSE partition, allocate more space (reducing Windows partition) and then reinstalling. I’m good now :)

I almost did that with python2. Also, some programs just have weird libraries that I’ve been close to uninstall, then see 4705894095 programs that would be uninstalled along with it.

It’s to avoid trackers and/or paywalls, and also to preserve it just in case. But yes, to each their own.

When creating a task, you can choose a Start, End Date and a Timer.

You also have to select the Calendar where you want Tasks.org to save your task.

In Nextcloud is the same while creating tasks, but it’ll create a Calendar for every list of tasks (e.g Personal tasks, College tasks, etc)

I’m using Tasks.org with DAVx5 (android) and an external Nextcloud hosting.

You can set blocks of time, nested tasks and it adds them to the Nextcloud calendar. I think Tasks.org can sync with Google Tasks, but it has limitations.

My only step left is self-hosting Nextcloud.

Very nice

I think that if Linux improves and the economy/companies go the way they’re going right now, FOSS has an opportunity to grow and bring more users, if not to Linux, to the decentralized and libre software communities. But i hope it goes hand to hand, as Linux would require better hardware support as its demand increases. Btw, I also think that accessibility would improve, which is good for everyone.

Aside from Linux, the people will, at some point, understand that a free product will worsen over time, and it’s better to invest some money or time into the services/apps they like so they don’t get enshittified. As FOSS communities grow and alternatives improve (like Godot, Blender and Mastodon), it’ll attract the curiosity of the people.

How did you do it? I’ve been wanting to do that, but I’ve been busy and haven’t had the time 😿

So all the effort and money they spent in developing their games, before knowing about this movement from Unity, should be punished?

I understand your intentions, but indie devs don’t have the capacity to switch engines, let alone redevelop everything when it’s already or almost finished. I’d understand if you do it at the start of 2024.

Also, this is speculation, but I’ve seen devs provide alternatives to get their games. A lot of developers have already declared their intentions to switch engines from now on and they can’t do that if they don’t have a budget.

I write small scripts in NeoVim and larger projects in VSCodium because it provides most of what I need and doesn’t consume a lot of resources. It’s a good tool, you can also use forks or alternatives, and i think that’s the spirit of open source, isn’t it?

I also have been trying Kate, works greats and with even better performance.

From what I remember, I only used opi codecs and that’s it. What I meant with the vendor change, was that I never run it nor allow it.

When you run zypper dup, it throws you some errors telling you that the versions are different or aren’t in the official repo, which means that you should wait until there are no errors. Unless there was an official vendor change and you have no other alternative (and it’s not really common) then you have to install those specific packages from the official repo.

One time, I got one that meant three different things, so it was useless. I had to debug in depth only to find out that my HDD was the problem._.

Sorry for not answering earlier, I think there was a problem with Beehaw.

Anyway, yes, I also use Packman and I do not have the --allow-vendor-change flag enabled because it caused more problems for me the last time i had TW installed. I prefer to wait until the repos are synced and then update. :)

Yes, I also use MESA, but that only happens when you use the --allow-vendor-change option. I don’t, I prefer to wait until packman is in sync with the openSUSE repos. I had that problem previously, before reinstalling TW and I didn’t like having multiple packages out of sync and sometimes repeated, I like to see them as a bigger package that has to be updated at the same time.

I use it, sometimes all it happens is that I have to wait a couple days

I’ve been using Tumbleweed for almost a year (in October) and I even resized my partition so I could have more storage in TW.

The only problems I’ve encountered specifically with TW were an update that made my repos not work, so I had to restore them and the usual OPI and zypper desyncs that make me wait until they’re both at sync and update correctly.

The lack of software has been almost non-existent, I knew about distrobox so I use that to install software like Stellaris or PacketTracer. I’ve had no problems.

I think you meant YaST at the first bullet point. And yes, Zypper is slow.

Still, I think that the updates and bugs are part of the bleeding edge rolling-release cycle, not a problem of only TW.