openSUSE Aeon - Desktop Linux finally done right? 

Aeon is a master piece, using the development version and its pretty stable, just works. Auto updates, rollback, flathub, distrobox and Gnome, all i need 💚.

Thank you. I am using AEON, and I am very happy with it. I am a humanities instructor, and I like to have a machine that requires minimum effort to get the work done every day.

Always liked OpenSUSE. I like the concept of immutability and roll back

Love the talk, always cool to see unique ways of using a desktop. I think this is perfect for those who just need to get work done, are those who are not technically savvy.

very logical and reasonable and pivotal moment for linux desktop. Linux desktop should be like Aeon , and get rid of competing with useless MacOS and Windows catchup .. there is nothing to be caught up in others . this is the stratagy sooner or later that will work.

Awesome to hear about a mechanism to detect deviations from the base image release. This is so super useful on Silverblue with rpm-ostree.

Micro OS and Fedora Silverblue deployed across my half dozen PCs / laptops. MicroOS being daily driven even before first full release. It is that good. Only my occasionally used M1 not running either of these immutable OS’ - the older Intel MacBook Pro runs Aeon superbly! So many casual users (normies) and those with need for reliability (devs /sys ad) will welcome immutable set and forget devices.

Have been SuSE/Opensuse user since version 7.x, as my primary OS, Tumbleweed being my choice since nearly its early days.; as of today I am running it on my latest bought Elitebook 835 G10 7840U/32GB/Samsung 990 Pro 2TB and all is working out of box, including ambient light sensor, wifi, bluetooth, fingerprint scanner, etc ... 100%. Will definitely give a try to MicroOS/Aeon, but then I a KDE guy! Thanks to the Team for this awesome OS/platform/distro ... Thumbs Up!

That was very enjoyable to watch.

I'm keeping Tumbleweed, but thank you for all this work, it's great.

I'm so glad MicroOS made standalone install possible without those rhel coreos ignition requirements

The main problems I see is you have to use btrfs, which isn't the fastest filesystem, especially on slower computers, and it only supports gnome, which sucks, I believe there's an alpha kde version too, but that's only 2 desktops, if you want something similar but with way more freedom then I recommend nixos, you can use any filesystem, you can use any desktop or window manager, and from what I can see you get similar functionality in terms of when you update it doesn't overwrite your current system, it installs the updated software alongside it, so then if an update breaks something you can just reboot into your previous working system.

Thank you

Brilliant.

Fails install in a virtual environment ? Why ....... How to fix this ?????

How does one go if they have multiple users and filling up disk storage because instead of system wide flatpaks by default, it's user wide and so all users have their own flatpak installations even the same ones?

The initial build was garbage when it first came out…no Internet connection and it was a mess as a desktop. A few years later, Kalpa is much improved and everything now works, including the Internet! 😊

I want to move away from my Win10 to openSUSE. All I use is Atlantis word processor, VLC player, and the Chrome browser. Should I choose openSUSE Aeon over openSUSE Tumbleweed? Thanks. :)

...he's Dave the Diver! :)

As far as servers go why not make pxe bootable distro that doesn't install itself to disk? It boots over network and it ready to rock. Updates are reboot away same with rollbacks. Operating system becomes like kubernetes pod: immutable and stateless. As a bonus disks can be used for actually useful stuff.

One usually pronounces the -ae- in words like archaeology, aetiology, haemoglobin, dyslipidaemia, daemon, and aeon (think "Americanized" spellings: etiology, hemoglobin, dyslipidemia, demon, and eon) are all pronounced USUALLY with a long E vowel sound, not so much like how this presenter is pronouncing "aeon." Hmm. It just is so funny to hear people pronouncing daemon as DAYmun, when it is the old ash (ae) letter that is pronounced today as DEEmun EVEN if it is still spelled daemon. From Wikipedia: "Æ (lowercase: æ) is a character formed from the letters a and e, originally a ligature representing the Latin diphthong ae. It has been promoted to the status of a letter in some languages, including Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese. It was also used in Old Swedish before being changed to ä. The modern International Phonetic Alphabet uses it to represent the near-open front unrounded vowel (the sound represented by the 'a' in English words like cat)."

Respect for the work done, however I continue to prefer Tumbleweed which I have been using for over 6 years now and it has never caused me any problems. By the way I don't really like GNOME, not because I have anything against it, but I simply can't work with it, I find it much more convenient to use KDE-Plasma. If the Plasma version of MicroOS gets a stable release one day, then I might consider it, but for me, using GNOME is truly awful.

Says word [wheezes] says a second word.

It's very interesting but they should support Cinnamon instead of Gnome because is lighter and better.

You lost me when I saw flatpak on your stack. What’s the freaking point? Everything is available as rpm

So GNOME only? No thanks not interested.

Ahh, so sad that it is only Gnome, maybe MATE or KDE, xfce ... but Gnome? ahh

I wanted to switch rom Manjaro to opensuse but if you guys are proud being supported by meta who are infamously known for taking our information to sell and do things with..Yeah I'm avoiding this like the grim death. And if you want to work on something how about hardware/software conpatitibilty? Having 2 threads one named "The hard way" to install nvidia drivers, why not just make it easier? No Linux distribution made me jump through so many hoops as well as the X11 issues you guys still have? Or maybe work on software compatitibilty like Surfshark and other apps? You guys have many good thing but fail hard at others it is confusing

You lost me at "Supports GNOME only". Sorry.

OpenSuse+Meta= OpenSuseberg. Be prepared 😈.

how can it be right when it's using gnome abomination? why don't you just focus on kalpa which is the right version. geez,

Yeah no. Id rather use ikey's serpentOS

This entire talk fell apart less than 5 minutes in when he said that Linux is not about Choice. That's exclusively what it's about

someone needs to start exercising. Listening to your breathing is not fun 🙃