A Sharky Anthro

Just a dude on the internet, looking for content and fun! I love Linux, gaming, writing, reading, music, anime, walks, and occasionally movies too. Chronically ill and anxious too, that makes life quite interesting…At times. Also learning about my anthro shark leanings…Thanks furries for providing me with a safe place to explore this part of me!

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  • I think the Garuda repos have more access to software, Octopi is really simple and fast to use. I could search package names and get the correct ones installed fairly fast. YaST has a similar functionality and worked pretty quickly. The difference is that Octopi doesn’t require a Admin password until you want to apply installations of packages. While YaST does require an initial Admin password, but lets you freely install stuff without further verification.

    Updating works just as quickly (if not a little faster) on Garuda, openSUSE Tumbleweed is pretty speedy as well…Garuda is just seconds shorter. I think the best part of Garuda is that I don’t have Secure Boot enabled, and that makes kernel updates painless. With openSUSE Tumbleweed, every time a new NVIDIA driver or kernel update dropped…I’d have to do the MOK song and dance, if you miss it, it screws everything up. Not the case with Garuda, the scripts they wrote for pacman basically takes care of everything and I can read the outputs to see how it all works. It’s very nice in that respect.

    During the Garuda Linux install process, you also can get proper NVIDIA drivers on openSUSE Tumbleweed. You can easily install them through YaST or the command line. Still, I prefer Garuda’s approach of installing them during the system install, as Nouveau Drivers are absolutely inferior (they don’t have the source code NVIDIA has) and often cause me problems.

    I feel like Garuda on-boarding is a lot better, with their Garuda Toolbox opening up and guiding the user on the first steps of system set-up. I do find if you select too many apps for the set-up it will miss installing those packages. However, using Octopi to install those missing things is a viable solution…

    Garuda, out of the box is one of the visually stunning distros (highly customized KDE Plasma DE). It could be considered a lot by some, but, my eyes appreciate the striking color. The reasonably sane desktop layout is pretty strong, a bit opinionated but I changed some things so that I could work with it.










  • Honestly, I find that PackageKit is more annoying for system updates. Especially if you get regular driver updates and there are agreements that need to be confirmed, it can show them so slowly that an update can outright fail. I only use zypper for system updates because the “–auto-agree-with-licenses” flag can be used to prevent this issue. Honestly, I find that zypper handles system updates with a speed that rivals using Discover or GNOME Software. It makes finding conflicts and resolving them a lot easier too. I still use my software store to manage Flatpaks, as that is a good use for the store.

    If you feel comfortable with the idea, use YaST to remove PackageKit, it will make updating via command line so much easier. Just make sure to leave the Flatpak management alone, no, I am not at all speaking from experience ROFL.


  • I only watched Exodus being played…

    Last Light

    I remember Metro Last Light having the potential for that ending. It was what I felt should be the default ending. To be cruel and choose humanity over the Dark Ones should be a negative ending you had to go out of your way to get.

    Shame that they forgot the continuity of their own story when it came to writing Exodus. I just bought the game because I planned to replay the series, now I am going to be annoyed. ROFL








  • Yeah, openSUSE Tumbleweed is a pretty solid distro…And really flexible, customizable in the way that approaches Arch without all the headaches that can come with knowing Arch. I don’t even mind the daily updates, it’s just something that people should be aware of. Particularly if they are compelled to be up to date (like myself). There is only a few problems that I’ve had and most of them were because of me. One was because SELinux was being a bastard (but it could be fixed with two commands). Hell, updating using Zypper is probably the fastest way to get them done, I don’t use GNOME software, as it can get irritating to update NVIDIA drivers (as it will ignore my agreeing to the licenses).

    I like that YaST Software is a solid way of installing packages and software without much fuss.