#opensuse

[bundtsnake]

Trial by fire

Idiotic hot take of mine:

Children should be introduced to computers via the command line only.

No smartphones. No iPad babies. We use BASH in this household.

Pros:

- Children have to actually learn how a computer works in order to use it.

- No dark design patterns. No hyperoptimized attention vortex in your pocket.

- Your 7 year old can brag to the other kids on the playground that they use Arch btw.

- Easier to sandbox into a VM to prevent installation of malware.

- Can use FreeDOS to raise them with an understanding of legacy systems.

- By the time they figure out how to connect to the internet they will be ready for it.

Cons:

- sudo rm -rf

[opensuse-official]

I think it is very cool how tech companies, schools, employers, and universities make it actively difficult to distance yourself from Google, Microsoft, and Apple.

Yes most Linux distros are very stable, way more secure, privacy friendly, and way more customizable. But every institution is built to make technological independence as difficult as possible.

Yelling on the internet that everyone should switch to Linux and FOSS really ignores how much of the technological world is designed to not let that happen.

[forever-stuck-on-java-8]

I love it when Linux is just like "you want to update 277 packages? no problem. I gotcha fam"

takes like 8 minutes max due to download size. meanwhile windows updates makes my machine do fuck all expect show a spinning circle for 3 hours and then randomly fail because I didn't pass the vibe check and now my hard drive is corrupted.

[wearenotclosed]

Made last night and thought it looked nice, need to play more risk of rain returns but uni assessments are killing me

^^^ reference image/gif

[formicarum-rex]

https://linuxiac.com/opensuses-zypper-package-manager-gets-an-exciting-new-feature/

[nixcraft]

Perhaps 3024 will finally be the year of the Linux desktop.

I hope that 100 years from now, a day will come when everyone uses privacy-enabled Linux (or some sort of *BSD), and those users have no clue what the Windows hell from soul-sucking corporations like Microsoft looks like. A boy can dream, can't he?

[nimbergarden]

FTU linux stamps by me

[kreetzel]

@opensuse-official @fedora-official how do we feel about this

new gay flag just dropped

[angieaaw]

1609 packages to upgrade

whoopsy i forgot to update recently

[kaestralblades]

i am earnestly appreciative of the sincerity that went into making this but also i want OP to know this makes sense to probably 12 people in the world and everyone else is left woefully with no positive net understanding of anything in the image

[opensuse-official]

People need to break their computers more often, and I mean that with my whole heart.

Loose a few screws while taking apart your laptop

Flash a stupid Linux distro

Accidentally break your kernal

Fuck up a software update

Fixing broken things is one of the best ways to become more computer literate. It developes the basis for all of your understanding going forward. Learning the intricacies of your operating system and of your hardware is something that is so powerful: in both self confidence and in self sufficiency way! I mean this especially for Windows or Mac users.

No one is to blame for technical or computer illiteracy besides corporate greed. Corporations directly benefit from your not knowing how your computer works.

Fixing something is the first, and most important, steps in liberating yourself from the technologic corporate chokehold of recent history.

[forever-stuck-on-java-8]

.. that's a lot of packages

[razorlope]

Max drawn in 14 operating systems

Windows 2000

Windows XP

Windows Vista

Windows 7

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

Windows 11

Ubuntu

Puppy

OpenSUSE

Linux Mint

Debian

StormOS (Solaris)

ChromeOS

I was going to do MacOS, but couldn't due to technical difficulties

Systems were ran on Virtualbox (with the exception of ChromeOS and Windows 10)

youtube video

[q4os-tde-official]

posting this on an openSUSE VM :D