On 06/08/2021 13.11, Łukasz Pruski wrote:
Dear Reader,
I have been using both SUSE and OpenSUSE for many, many years. Within my personal computing environment as well as within my professional computing environment (Enterprise Architect is my Job).
I've always thought that having a stable branche is the way to go, and stil do. But, there's an increasing concern about usability. Especially with the recent 15.3 release of OpenSUSE (and SUSE Enterprise Linux equivalent).
There were always packages that didn't work 100% and needed some kind of fix.
However, currently we're seeing a lot of broken things. Either being it something as insignificant as Gradio (no connection to directory services), old version of Evolution with which one can't connect to either iCloud or Gmail services, either being it the introduction of the nouveau driver (and all it's problems with (for example) Quadra Cards).
Nvidia doesn't really play nice with Linux. My recommendation is to avoid their hardware and use AMD instead. For email, I switched to Thunderbird eons ago.
SUSE and OpenSUSE were (to me) about productivity. Which means, not cutting edge, but certainly not broken. And with a lot of versions things are too much outdated and/or broken.
Packages on openSUSE leap /have/ to be old. But if you see breakage, report each breakage in Bugzilla, one by one.
So my kind request would be to take this into account when making a next fix for 15.3 and absolutely when working on 15.4 (or whatever the next one will be :-) ).
Evolution within a corporate context means: it has to work ... And nowadays we even have companies that run on ... Google infrastructre ...
An installation option at which you can easily choose either you wish to use:
1. A Clean GNOME (or KDE or whatever) Environment without any extra drivers
I don't understand this. :-?
2. A Nouveau version (Open Source) of whatever environment or
3. A version that is ready to be linked with commercial drivers, would be fantastic.
As far as I know, you can use the proprietary Nvidia drivers, no problem. Just not out of the box, because the box can not contain legally the proprietary drivers, you have to get those yourself. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))