You're right, brother. Will you let me re-join the circle?

Friendship with Linux ended, now TempleOS is my new friend.

Printer not working?

No, printer works well.

What is it then? Bluetooth? Must be bluetooth, it never works on Linux.

everything works, OP just ascended beyond friendship

Bluetooth works as well.

So it's more like a professional lifelong lasting partnership now. Or or seks-shu-al one?

 

What's wrong with Linux can you please tell me already?

The wi-fi driver is shit, some software I want to use doesn’t work on Linux and limited amount of games.

It's probably for the best, most people don't need it anyway.

How long until all software is streamed from da cloud an OS wars become irrelecant for desktop users

I have used Linux Mint for the last couple of years on my thinkpads. Now I bought my first desktop PC and will switch.

Never. Consider the following.

 

Notice how easily Russia became banned from every licensed software supplier. Autodesk, JetBrains, QT - all the good stuff. You might say it's a good thing, ha-ha, but what if Finland does something retarded in 10 years? Or, say, Texas, or any other place?

 

The ability to make every computer in a certain geographical location useless if way too much power.

 

Never gonna happen I reckon.

tbh you make an egcellend point point here and I honestly never thought of that befo

 

Sad! I would run everything of da cloud

I am a bit disappointed in WSL Linux. I thought I would get access to all packages in the repositories, but apparently it's only programming related packages.

why else would you use wsl if not for programming?

To use programs which are only available on Linux.

Gecko Linux

GeckoLinux

Linux for Detail-Oriented Geckos

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Welcome to GeckoLinux

 

GeckoLinux is a set of Linux spins built from the openSUSE distribution, with a focus on polish and out-of-the-box usability on the desktop. It is available in Static (based on openSUSE Leap) and Rolling (based on openSUSE Tumbleweed) editions.

 

 

GeckoLinux Cinnamon edition

 

GeckoLinux XFCE edition

 

GeckoLinux Gnome edition

 

GeckoLinux Mate edition

 

GeckoLinux Plasma edition

 

GeckoLinux LXQt edition

 

GeckoLinux Pantheon edition

 

GeckoLinux Budgie edition

 

Releases

 

Please read the release notes on GitHub.

GeckoLinux Features

 

An installable live DVD / USB image based on openSUSE under 2GB in size

Individual editions for many different popular desktop environments with a pleasant default configuration

Carefully selected open source desktop programs and proprietary media codecs pre-installed and ready to use

Btrfs subvolume layout with Zstd transparent compression and automatic Snapper snapshots bootable via GRUB for easy rollbacks (instructions)

Beautiful open source font rendering configured out of the box

Optimal power management with TLP pre-installed

Much more open source and patent encumbered software available in the pre-configured repositories

Uses the excellent infrastructure already in place for openSUSE, with no repackaging or modification of packages

An installed system can be smoothly upgraded to future openSUSE releases while retaining its unique GeckoLinux configuration

 

How Is This Different From openSUSE?

 

GeckoLinux comes as an offline installable live DVD / USB image for Static and Rolling editions, whereas openSUSE has a non-live DVD / USB installer, a net-installer image, or Tumbleweed live DVD / USB with net-installer options.

GeckoLinux offers customized editions optimized for different desktop environments, whereas openSUSE requires the user to know how to install patterns and packages for different desktop environments.

GeckoLinux comes pre-installed with common niceties such as proprietary media codecs, whereas openSUSE for legal reasons requires users to know how to add additional repositories and which packages to add.

GeckoLinux prefers packages from the Packman repo when they are available, whereas some of openSUSE's default packages don't work with patent-restricted features even if the features are installed from other sources.

GeckoLinux does not force the installation of additional recommended packages after system installation, whereas openSUSE pre-installs patterns and automatically installs recommended package dependencies, thus causing many additional and possibly unwanted packages to be installed the first time the package manager is used.

GeckoLinux pre-installed packages can be uninstalled with all of their dependencies, whereas openSUSE's patterns often cause uninstalled packages to be automatically re-installed.

GeckoLinux does not use or pre-install PackageKit, which is known to interfere with the underlying Zypper package management system.

 

Download

GeckoLinux Static editions:

 

GeckoLinux Static editions are based on openSUSE Leap 15.4 with its periodic release cycle and a long support lifetime. Looking for the rolling release?

 

Notice: Please verify your download checksums by clicking the i icon next to your download in the Sourceforge directory listing.

GeckoLinux

Static

Cinnamon

GeckoLinux

Static

XFCE

GeckoLinux

Static

Gnome

GeckoLinux

Static

Plasma

GeckoLinux

Static

Mate

GeckoLinux

STATIC

Budgie

GeckoLinux

Static

LXQt

GeckoLinux

Static

"Barebones"

GeckoLinux Rolling editions:

 

GeckoLinux Rolling editions are based on openSUSE Tumbleweed with its frequent and extremely well tested stable rolling releases. Looking for the static release?

 

Notice: Please verify your download checksums by clicking the i icon next to your download in the Sourceforge directory listing.

GeckoLinux

Rolling

Cinnamon

GeckoLinux

Rolling

XFCE

GeckoLinux

Rolling

Gnome

GeckoLinux

Rolling

Plasma

GeckoLinux

Rolling

Mate

GeckoLinux

Rolling

LXQt

GeckoLinux

Rolling

Budgie

GeckoLinux

Rolling-OBS

Pantheon

GeckoLinux

Rolling

"Barebones"

GeckoLinux NEXT editions:

 

GeckoLinux NEXT editions have a stable openSUSE Leap base, combined with additional OBS repositories to offer the latest version of popular desktop environments. (Looking for the static release or the rolling release?)

 

Notice: Please verify your download checksums by clicking the i icon next to your download in the Sourceforge directory listing.

GeckoLinux NEXT Plasma

 

GeckoLinux NEXT Pantheon

 

 

Who Are You?

 

I've used Linux on the desktop since approximately 2001. I have used many versions of openSUSE since the project's inception, and I used SuSE Linux before that. I've always appreciated openSUSE's flexibility and highly innovative infrastructure, but the profusion of "paper cuts" in the default configuration always made me think twice before recommending it to others. This projects sets out to change that. I am also the creator and maintainer of the SpiralLinux set of spins built from Debian.

FTP on Windows actually maxes my connection out. On Linux it was always throttled, on Windows I use the same client, connect to the same sever, but still get much higher speeds.

I don't even use my pc anymore