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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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OpenSUSE is the best (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hear me out, the mascot is a freaking chameleon, that's cool as shit man.

Also it's a German engineered distro, German engineering wins again!

Zypper is just a funnier name for a package manager and it has Tumbleweed which is arch but actually doesn't break for once!

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[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why the fuck does it ask for root password to change every little thing? Want to change network password? Root password. Install a flatpak? Root password. Sneeze? You guessed it, root password.

I'd be using it instead of Fedora if it wasn't for that shit. I even tried to spin myself a custom OpenSuse ISO...

[–] ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It might be a bit tighter than Fedora, I haven't tried Fedora so I wouldn't know but Flatpaks can still be installed as user, no pw. All mine are, by default.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But you still need to add the remote... With a root password of course. At least last time I tried.

[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Surely, you could add a --user remote without a problem?

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Probably trough the commandline, it has been a long time since I last checked, but not using the gui, which asked for the password for any repository modification.

[–] xinayder@infosec.pub 2 points 4 months ago

The default config for sudo is to ask for root password. I too was annoyed by this and had to change the setting to ask for the user password, not root, every time I used sudo.