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I was given the honor and privilege of attending the Ubuntu Summit in Riga, Latvia. This was made possible by my brother from another country, Mauro, who I have known now for 4 or 5 years. I'm not sure how long... actually. Some years back, he was was an incredible encouragement in my many things … Continue reading Attending Ubuntu Summit 2023 as an openSUSE User
There is something fun about the smattering of new releases of Ubuntu and flavors every six months. I don't try them all as I just don't have the time. I do like to try the new ones, see what they're all about. It's one thing to try Kubuntu, where you already know what you are … Continue reading Ubuntu Cinnamon | Review from an openSUSE User
The Linux and open source community is a wonderful thing and as part of a BDLL community we have these distribution challenges. Try out a different distribution and talk about your experience. There was a lot of excitement about having the Deepin Desktop on the Ubuntu base and I decided to commit to this challenge. … Continue reading UbuntuDDE | Review from an openSUSE User
FerenOS undoubtedly focuses on visual aesthetics, user interface and user experience. The last time I looked at FerenOS, it was built on the Cinnamon Desktop Environment. At the time, the Plasma version was called "Feren Next" and and initially I was disappointed I didn't use the Plasma version, but now I am very glad I … Continue reading FerenOS (2020) | Review from an openSUSE User
Life gets in the way of my nerding. I'd apologize but I don't exactly see me as being accountable since this is not exactly a source of income for me. So, I'll do these as much and as often as I can. The 9th Noodling strolling in unfashionably late to a party Smoking a Thanksgiving … Continue reading Noodlings 9 | Smoking a Turkey not my Linux Powered Lights
Ubuntu is, without any dispute, the most prolific Linux distribution today. You can look at any metric and you will see that Ubuntu is number one. How did they rise to this level? I can only speculate, perhaps it has to do with the charismatic and enthusiastic visionary of Canonical's founder Mark Shuttleworth that made … Continue reading Ubuntu 19.10 | Review from an openSUSE User
Regolith is a very interesting distribution based on Ubuntu that uses the i3 Window manager. In this case, you get all the benefits of the Ubuntu distribution with the unique i3 interface with predefined shortcut keys. The creator of this fine distribution, Ken Gilmer, has put a lot of time, effort into really making this … Continue reading Regolith Linux | Review from an openSUSE User
One of those distributions there is a lot of buzz about and I have mostly ignored for a significant number of years has been Zorin OS. I just shrugged my shoulders and kind of ignored its existence. None of the spoken or written selling points really stuck with me, like a warm springtime rain trickling … Continue reading Zorin OS 15 | Review from an openSUSE User
In participating in with a virtual LUG, BDLL, I decided to give Enso OS a try, on Virtual Machine, of course. In recognizing that there can be Virtual Machine-isms, I am going to ignore any issues I had with that and just relay the overall usability of this distribution. I am evaluating Enso OS from … Continue reading Enso OS | Review from an openSUSE User
As part of a kind of challenge, I have decided to kick the tires on Pop!_OS Since I don't have the extra hardware to install it on "bare metal" so I have chosen to put it in a Virtual Machine. Pop!_OS can be downloaded from here. I chose the 2GB sized Intel/AMD version for this … Continue reading Pop!_OS | Review from an openSUSE User