OpenSUSE 15.01 Leap KDE
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2018 10:25 pm
Just installed Leap and it took awhile as the installation only disk has 3.6gb of files but it really saves on having to download a lot of apps. The SUSE installer is easy to use but you do need to pay attention to the settings. I asked the installer to go with using the whole drive and instead of their file system choices i decided to go with ext4. Before installing it asks you what repos you want and I went with everything including testing to get what I needed.
The rest was easy and the install took about 45 minutes but no additional updates were needed upon boot. I added some additional apps,
HPLIP
Chromium
Audacious
Bleachbit
hardinfo
Thunderbird
Gkrellm
VLC
additional Gstreamer codecs
No issues with adding the apps and no issues with conflicts such as I saw with Gecko Linux(Leap clone).
Firefox is 60.2 ESR, Thunderbird 60 and Chromium 69. KDE 5.12.6 with the 4,12,14 kernel which surprised me but kernel security updates were present.
Has more of the KDE apps than Gecko but overall about the same. Visually the desktop looks very nice, polished, clean and very fast. Memory usage at GUI was 432mb and overall performance is faster than other RPM distros I use.
OpenSUSE has improved a lot since last time I used it and its far easier to get additional apps and features. Leap though has Discover which worked very well versus Gecko that doesnt use it. Its a great option for those who arent comfortable with Yast/Yast 2 for updating.
hardware detection was excellent but they didnt have HPLIP installed so it didnt see my printer. Installed HPLIP but still couldnt install using printer settings or HP device manager. As with Gecko you need to go to Yast, then click on printer and then click auto configuration and its installed in 2 minutes, then reboot.
My experience so far has been excellent and if you want to try it out they have a livecd you can use but you cannot install from that disk. You have to use the seperate iso which is 3.6gb so I hope you have a decent internet connection. They offer a wide range of DE's you can choose from other than KDE Plasma.
Im off to do some tests and Ill post back.
The rest was easy and the install took about 45 minutes but no additional updates were needed upon boot. I added some additional apps,
HPLIP
Chromium
Audacious
Bleachbit
hardinfo
Thunderbird
Gkrellm
VLC
additional Gstreamer codecs
No issues with adding the apps and no issues with conflicts such as I saw with Gecko Linux(Leap clone).
Firefox is 60.2 ESR, Thunderbird 60 and Chromium 69. KDE 5.12.6 with the 4,12,14 kernel which surprised me but kernel security updates were present.
Has more of the KDE apps than Gecko but overall about the same. Visually the desktop looks very nice, polished, clean and very fast. Memory usage at GUI was 432mb and overall performance is faster than other RPM distros I use.
OpenSUSE has improved a lot since last time I used it and its far easier to get additional apps and features. Leap though has Discover which worked very well versus Gecko that doesnt use it. Its a great option for those who arent comfortable with Yast/Yast 2 for updating.
hardware detection was excellent but they didnt have HPLIP installed so it didnt see my printer. Installed HPLIP but still couldnt install using printer settings or HP device manager. As with Gecko you need to go to Yast, then click on printer and then click auto configuration and its installed in 2 minutes, then reboot.
My experience so far has been excellent and if you want to try it out they have a livecd you can use but you cannot install from that disk. You have to use the seperate iso which is 3.6gb so I hope you have a decent internet connection. They offer a wide range of DE's you can choose from other than KDE Plasma.
Im off to do some tests and Ill post back.