Re: Leap-16 ... Oh SHIT !

On 2026-07-06 07:34, c186282 wrote:
> On 7/5/26 15:07, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Jul 2026 13:32:15 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>>
>>> I am using right now openSUSE Leap 16.0 without a problem.
>>
>> I replaced EndeavourOS on the Lenovo T480 with Leap 16. So far it has 
>> been
>> trouble free without the Endeavour quirks.  I'm using KDE both on SUSE 
>> and
>> Fedora. SUSE has older versions of the kernel, Plasma, konsole and so
>> forth but nothing that affects me.
>>
>> The only snag was VirtualBox. Once again, that was an experiment after
>> reading C123456's posts and I personally have no interest in running VB.
>> virt-manager works fine.
>>
>> Python on SUSE is 3.13 versus 3.14 on Fedora and Ubuntu 26.04 but that's
>> not a problem either. I haven't tried lately but there were some 
>> libraries
>> that didn't support 3.14 so that initially was a bug rather than a
>> feature.
> 
>    About five years ago, OSuse decided it didn't need/support
>    lots of those olde-tyme utilities. Had lots of pgms that
>    ran those in the background to gather/parse the output for
>    vital systems info. In short, they SCREWED me for no good
>    reasons at all.
> 
>    What's next, remove 'ls' and 'ps' and 'df' because, well,
>    who needs to know that kind of shit anyway ? Have to hand
>    install to get 'ifconfig' now too.

You can install ifconfig trivially.


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Cheers,
        Carlos E.R.
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