To start with i had installed Elementary OS and all required Apps as .Deb file rather than Flatpak, i was about to think i had an option to stop Distro Hopping but then problems occurred,
app freeze frequently while using firefox, it was not an issue with memory as issue occurred with only 1 Tab of distrowatch home page.
login failure rate of Fprint was very high.
it was voraciously feasting on Battery power.
adding to this HDD was spinning at high rate even at idle.
File Copying would stuck halfway when copying >10GB files.
So i looked into my backup HDD for any ISO images to Install as weekend was about to start.
looking at Ubuntu LTS, Fedora and Debian brought back some memories which makes me to stay away from installing it.
- Ubuntu LTS- frequent warning messages on App center about missing link to some repo file and Gnome Keyring unlock error with Fprint configured, also Ubuntu version of Gnome did not impress me much though i liked the Yaru Theme.
- Fedora - Frequent Updates and getting bored with every Gnome Updates it somewhat started to feel like i am using a Phone/Tablet, but stability was super solid.
- Debian - Though it runs on my Old Desktop while using it on notebook i feel the software's are too outdated but then you are trading it for rock-solid unbreakable system.
- LinuxMint - it is a visual treat for Linux users, it provides us with ready to use after install system. but for some weird reason the system behaves in a clumsy manner after 1st Update like Plymouth gets disabled/just shows a blank screen, after entering password it hangs for a minute and more performance issues.
- CentOS Stream - its somewhat stable but it installs huge set of apps for server setup which is not a choice for Home users who needs fedora level minimal apps installed by default.
- Deepin - a very beautiful DE but its battery and CPU usage is very high even at idle, we get a Deepin desktop on top of old Deb packages.
- Arch - It has become more simple with archinstall scripts and always has the latest tech but as i use my system on weekends or on holidays i am not in sync with its updates and end up downloading from ~600MB to 1GB updates very often.
- ROSA KDE Plasma - very beautiful Distro but its mirror links always returns unreachable errors and you end up using it without an update,maybe it works well in Russia.
but an ISO image of Opensuse caught my eye, i remember Gnome did not performed well on opensuse with YaST2 earlier, so i decided to install their flagship DE KDE Plasma this time.
OpenSuse recommends ~4GB install media for fresh installation and Live Media is not recommended.
i did not choose tumbleweed as updates to it is very frequent and often the download size is huge, however it is very stable and feels a step above Release Candidate image.
As usual the installation is very neat and every step gives you a choice to shape your system.
Opensuse installer looks professional and gives a feel that you are installing a enterprise grade OS.
here at this stage the only option i changed was boot time which i set to 3seconds.
I had and older version of ISO so it took some time to downlaod updates while install, hence i did not selected any extra apps as it would again download newer version during install.
as soon as the desktop booted it brought back my memories with Leap 42 KDE gecko green image with matte black BG.
the first step i did was to enable packman repository and perform an upgrade with packages from packman repo.
sudo zypper up --allow-vendor-change
here are the repo setup details,
upon boot memory utilization was ~450MB and CPU usage were <10% or idle.
here are the systemd-analyse details, its normal and did not have any issue.
and here is the Neofetch output,
everything was preinstalled like Firefox, VLC, Libre Office,fonts and other basic utilities.
torrent client, Camera app were not installed which you can install using Yast Software management.
Discover software app showed warning corrupted lvm files, but it worked though.
i changed power settings to disable sleep mode, changed theme to match colors of OpenSuse.
disabled KDE Wallet.
Flatpak is preinstalled, i installed 0A.D Game and it works out of box.
Network configured during installation was saved with interface name like Wlan0 rather than the Network Name.
KDE Saves the Bluetooth Status upon start and shutdown.
battery backup was good when compared to Gnome Shell and was on par with XFCE DE.
animations , transition effects were smooth and have not faced a single Lag till now.
Firewall is installed by default.
the OpenSuse Version of KDE is much more polished when compared to stock KDE Plasma on other Distros.
though i still miss the finger print reader support in KDE but this is not the way KDE is built around,its not supported due to security concerns. however it will be supported in new release.
as a home user i found only firewall can be used as basic level of security however OpenSuse has a plethora of tools via YaST2 to configure server and permissions.
overall it was an amazing Distro and serves my need as daily driver, lets see if i can keep it on my system for a month.
Cheers!
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