Friday, August 29, 2025
Political Suicide of Ceylon
OpeSuse-15.6 Leap and Tumbleweed
OpenSuses 15.6 Leap
Yes, I did install OpenSuse 15.6 Leap on my NUC.
I used Gnome Desktop.
It was bit of long process.
Only Reason, I did was it allowed me to select Gnome at install time.
Last time Tumbleweed took over the hard disk. This time I used Ext4 instead of Btrfs using expert option.
Used Plasma 6 option and to see the games available.
Gnome took almost 5GB but Plasma only 4.5GB which was bit of surprise.
This time I was careful in my installation.Installation is on administrator level and one should make sure to click the administrator level option. If you did not select this option you may not be able to install it. It is at root level which is not a good option.
Immediately after installation, I selected a User level which was bonobo an African monkey.
It did not destroy my GRUB boot loader.
I could not install Synaptic Package manager which was not to my liking and I have to Go To Suse repository and the packages are in rpm which I hate.
I would try SOFTWARE and install AbiWord to begin.
A report will follow after a cup of tea and opening a file in AbiWord.
AbiWord was a rpm package and I managed to install it with my previous experience with Suse.
Audacious was installed using binaries.
Stacer is not available.
Rest of the packages I am going to install using Suse Package installer which include Audacity, Kdenlive and VLC.
Scribus, Inkscape and Blender all installed.
No Gdebi and no other browsers like Opera or Vivaldi but I got Epiphany and Falkon and no Dillo.
Using Gnome got Gparted, too.
No little games.
With all that I have used less than 10GB of DATA and I have 12GB left out 22GB for other installations.
Blender and Xournal (Texlive) took a lot space.
Summary
It took a long time to update 573 packages but after that everything went smoothly.
It is only in install version and not a live session which wastes, lot of my time.
Installing a distribution in Box utility is a pain.
This is true for Fedora with the exception of the image is very small and hardly any applications in the system. However Fedora has many versions and selecting one is a pain.
It is the last version before the new immutable version of Suse.
It is one year old and it was released in June 2024.
It is in Qt5 version and new Qt which is Qt6.
It is running 573 new updates on packages.
This for me to write a few line in my book "Linux Essentials" coming soon in Amazon books.
I cannot install an old kernel of Debian to coexist with Trixie and this (Suse) is the nearest I could keep to the old times.
It cannot write a Linux image to a USB.
Overall the experience was not bad but brought the nostalgia of using Linux 20 years ago when they were not proprietary.
Whatever the distribution Linux never failed me.
I am not a fan of immutable software and that is why I gave up Gnoppix.
AI installer drives me NUTS even though I use AI for looking for the correct definition when writing on a new topic which is better than Wikipedia.
Ragata-OS of Suse
Yes, I decided to Install Ragata OS on top of my MX Linux and it wanted 1 GB of EFI boot partition.
Linux Games I Love to Play
Linux Games I Love to Play
Linux Gamers Live, the Arch derivative is top of my list and Linux Ultimate Edition is close second and Knoppix 2008 December edition comes third and I could not find a new version of games in spite of Knoppix 6.7 was out and looks fantastic.
Knoppix cannot be installed on hard drive.
Why I choose Linux Gamers Live was simply
because its front-end just looks like Apple front-end and ready for
games with icons instead of names.
It also can be installed into hard disk now.
Now instead of trying to outscore these three edition which I have done a lot for Linus games, I will list my favorites below.
Even PCLinuxFuillMonty though, they have place for Linux guys and girls.
I
ndirectly FullMonty comes fourth.
1. Number one is Super Tux 2 and I enjoyed playing hours and hours.
2. Close second is Pingus and its environmental theme is commendable.
3. Number three is Extreme Tux Racer which is sweet and relaxing
4. Number 4 is SuperTuxCart (this is for the racing addict)
5. Number 5 is Tuxcart (This is for the training on racing)
6. Number 6 is Frozen Bubble
7. Number 7 is any of the 100 of tiny games
If any of the Linux distributions fail to
introduce any of the top 5 of mine selection I thought of giving them
minus marks in my rating in future.
Mind you with Wine and getedit one can play Windows , DOS and Atari games of the yesteryear.