On Wednesday, 6 February 2019 23:21 Carlos E. R. wrote:
Some time not very long ago, I attended a long training course. Most of it was about Windows Server administration, but we dedicated some time to Linux as well. Guess what? They all installed Ubuntu. I insisted and installed openSUSE. I succeeded because of who I am, but I had to do more effort than the rest because I had to investigate more and change the procedures. The procedures for whatever, all assumed Ubuntu. All the instructions were for Ubuntu. I managed to do everything, on my own, but it was harder and longer (maybe days longer)... As I say, I was the single one in the whole class not using Ubuntu.
Sounds to me as if, as a result, you learned more about Linux than anyone else in that training. :-) I was running linux trainings myself for nine years (2002-2011). I was using SuSE Linux / openSUSE on the machines, mostly because (1) that was what I was using myself and (2) AutoYaST (which saved me a lot of work when preparing the lab) but I tried to make the trainings as distribution independent as possible. Sometimes there were people who were trying things on their laptops in parallel. Few times there was someone at the beginning who was surprised or even disappointed about using SuSE Linux (openSUSE) rather than current distribution of fashion but I don't remember anyone complaining about it in the feedback form _after_ the training. Things can be done in different ways and the most common is not necessarily the best. If I believed what most people are using is automatically the best, I would have probably never started playing with Linux at all, 24 years ago.
The documentation of services my country administration provides, sometimes contemplate Linux, but when they do, it is Ubuntu what they use. Their docs give examples using Ubuntu. Thus when a month ago I tried to use my country ID card electronic identification system on openSUSE, I failed. All the instructions are for Ubuntu. No wiki page here.
I had similar experience recently with Ubiquiti Unifi Controller software which is provided for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu. I also lost patience trying to make the Ubuntu package work on openSUSE so I installed it on RPi3 with raspbian first and eventually bought their dedicated "hardware" controller (which is more up-to-date and better maintained anyway). But I (1) don't blame openSUSE and (2) don't see the experience as a reason to switch openSUSE to debian style package management and Ubuntu library naming scheme and filesystem layout. There will be always people whose conclusion from such experience would be "see, openSUSE is crap, nothing works there" but as I said multiple times, I'm not convinced this is the type of potential users we should focus on. Michal Kubecek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org