Noodlings 1 | openSUSE News and other Blatherings

A lot more work than I initially anticipated, I have decided to start a "podcast" but the term "podcast" seems to pretentious for me in the same way that "blog" does so these are nothing more than audio blatherings of what I have been noodling around. In Tumbleweed News Standout updates in the snapshots released … Continue reading Noodlings 1 | openSUSE News and other Blatherings

Broken and Fixed Virt-Manager on openSUSE

I am not a "Distro Hopper" but I like to try out other distributions of Linux or operating systems, for that matter. I don't have much interest in wiping out my main system to find out I prefer openSUSE over something else. The alternative is virtual machines. I have found that QEMU/KVM seems to work … Continue reading Broken and Fixed Virt-Manager on openSUSE

CPU Security Mitigation on openSUSE | Tuning it for Your Case

This is a little outside of my normal blatherings format but after stumbling upon a video from Red Robbo's YouTube channel. I wanted to investigate his claims that maybe, just maybe the security mitigations that I have chosen they are a bit excessive for my use case. Recently, openSUSE has added a feature to make … Continue reading CPU Security Mitigation on openSUSE | Tuning it for Your Case

Xfce, A Model GTK Based Desktop | Late Summer Blathering

In full disclosure, Plasma is my Desktop Environment of choice, it is very easy to customize and to make my own with very little effort. As of late, there isn't a whole lot of customizing I do, it's all pretty minor. A couple tweaks to the the visuals, make it dark, change some sound effects … Continue reading Xfce, A Model GTK Based Desktop | Late Summer Blathering

Endeavour OS | Review from an openSUSE User

Endeavour OS is the unofficial successor to Antegros, I've never used Antegros so I cannot make any comparisons between the two. It should also be noted that I think Arch Linux, in general, is more work than it is worth so this won't exactly be a shining review. Feel free to bail here if you … Continue reading Endeavour OS | Review from an openSUSE User

Zorin OS 15 | 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