Hello Community
Destination Linux has talked about openSUSE as the most underrated distribution [1].
As in another review beginning of this year, it gives us the opportunity to learn and improve. Here are my takeaways from the show:
- The installer and YaST could use some polish and fine-tuning. They were mainly referring to some eye-candy, but as well to functionality
- In terms of functionality, Wifi, firewall and printer setup could be improved.
While I mostly use ethernet when installing, I seem to remember that the juggling with SSID and authorisation type could be difficult for a less experienced person.
Same for the firewall setup: why there is a 'docker' zone preset, but no external zone for ethernet and wifi is beyond my knowledge. This tool is great for experienced users, but leaves new users behind. I feel we need a more simple, dashboard like setup and leave the current one as 'expert mode'
Printer setup....is a steady source of joy, and I have to admit, I struggle with the setup in YaST as well. How can we improve the workflow? It was mentioned (not in this show) that Fedora is way better in that sense - Neal, can you comment? Beside this, default setup requires root permissions for nearly all print activites. Do I want to give everyone root access on the family machine? Clearly not. Nathan pointed me to [2], I feel we should make this standard.
Lets pick these comments from Destination Linux up, it helps to improve our distribution - and now is the time to prepare for Leap 15.4
What do ou think about this? Do you have distinct proposals how the workflows could be improved?
Lets discuss in this thread before creating feature requests in bugzilla
Have a great day Axel
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpwhWeBhpKk [2] https://cubiclenate.com/2021/03/20/user-friendly-printer-management-opensuse...