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[–] astroturds@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm always shocked that other distros haven't made their own version of Yast from opensuse

[–] Ozzy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've tried yast and I'm still unsure what it was supposed to do. I just poked around, asked me if I know than I'm doing and then just left

[–] astroturds@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just a general system setup and config tool. I'm assuming that, like me, you already know how to do all that stuff without yast but it's good for newbies and people that aren't super nerds. With all of the anti terminal stuff I always read about on the internet you'd think at least ubuntu would have their own version of it or something similar.

"YaST is a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server tool that provides a graphical interface for all essential installation and system configuration tasks. Whether you need to update packages, configure a printer, modify firewall settings, set up an FTP server, or partition a hard disk—you can do it using YaST."

But yeah, I actually hardly ever use it myself.

[–] Ozzy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Ohhhhhhh, that makes sense, thanks for explaining!

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