▲ 978 ▼ Distro Focuses (lemmy.ca) submitted 2 years ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 229 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 2 years ago (3 children) I don't get the Germany part, and I'm German permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] gregor@gregtech.eu 22 points 2 years ago (2 children) SUSE is a German company permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) I know, but I don't get the joke. We don't do these around here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child) I think it means that OpenSUSE is "all of the above"—stability, flexibility, security—because those are qualities frequently attributed to German things/products. It isn't really a joke in the sense of it making fun of Germany or anything like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago I see. Thanks 💖 permalink fedilink source parent [–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) SUSE was a German company a century ago, then it changed hands more than a soap bar in a public restroom and now I have no idea if it’s even a terrestrial company anymore permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago It's a german company again, however currently seated in Luxembourg. permalink fedilink source parent [–] ogeist@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children) Check the comment from superkret, basically overengineered, redundant and not very intuitive. I work in german SW development, so I understand. I would put it like this, german backends are among the best you can find but german frontends are usually complicated and not intuitive... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago The main problem is the way YaST2 is (not) integrated with the modern KDE and Gnome settings. Gnome 40 then screwed things up even more for them as every item is now part of the overview, there ain't the classical menu anymore. If you know where to find things it's great, but right now it indeed feels quite messy with lots of settings hard to find and split in lots of submenus. permalink fedilink source parent [–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 2 years ago Thanks 💖 permalink fedilink source parent [–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago* I thought the joke was that each distro has a descriptor that ends with -y with openSUSE's descriptor being unexpected but still matching the pattern. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 22 points 2 years ago (2 children) SUSE is a German company permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) I know, but I don't get the joke. We don't do these around here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child) I think it means that OpenSUSE is "all of the above"—stability, flexibility, security—because those are qualities frequently attributed to German things/products. It isn't really a joke in the sense of it making fun of Germany or anything like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago I see. Thanks 💖 permalink fedilink source parent [–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) SUSE was a German company a century ago, then it changed hands more than a soap bar in a public restroom and now I have no idea if it’s even a terrestrial company anymore permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago It's a german company again, however currently seated in Luxembourg. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 2 years ago (1 child) I know, but I don't get the joke. We don't do these around here permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child) I think it means that OpenSUSE is "all of the above"—stability, flexibility, security—because those are qualities frequently attributed to German things/products. It isn't really a joke in the sense of it making fun of Germany or anything like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago I see. Thanks 💖 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child) I think it means that OpenSUSE is "all of the above"—stability, flexibility, security—because those are qualities frequently attributed to German things/products. It isn't really a joke in the sense of it making fun of Germany or anything like that. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago I see. Thanks 💖 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 years ago I see. Thanks 💖 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Draghetta@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) SUSE was a German company a century ago, then it changed hands more than a soap bar in a public restroom and now I have no idea if it’s even a terrestrial company anymore permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago It's a german company again, however currently seated in Luxembourg. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago It's a german company again, however currently seated in Luxembourg. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (2 children) Check the comment from superkret, basically overengineered, redundant and not very intuitive. I work in german SW development, so I understand. I would put it like this, german backends are among the best you can find but german frontends are usually complicated and not intuitive... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago The main problem is the way YaST2 is (not) integrated with the modern KDE and Gnome settings. Gnome 40 then screwed things up even more for them as every item is now part of the overview, there ain't the classical menu anymore. If you know where to find things it's great, but right now it indeed feels quite messy with lots of settings hard to find and split in lots of submenus. permalink fedilink source parent [–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 1 point 2 years ago Thanks 💖 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago The main problem is the way YaST2 is (not) integrated with the modern KDE and Gnome settings. Gnome 40 then screwed things up even more for them as every item is now part of the overview, there ain't the classical menu anymore. If you know where to find things it's great, but right now it indeed feels quite messy with lots of settings hard to find and split in lots of submenus. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago* I thought the joke was that each distro has a descriptor that ends with -y with openSUSE's descriptor being unexpected but still matching the pattern. permalink fedilink source parent
