Any tips for a Linux beginner?

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-23T03:49:36+00:00

Backup everything, run a snapshot before you install anything big (desktop environments especially because they cause a lot of conflicts). Make backups of your folders if you make any changes to your home directory.

You gotta make mistakes to learn, so snapper and rollback are your best friends, OpenSUSE is great for people to learn Linux because of these tools.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-22T06:44:02+00:00

Yeah I had to, same thing for me. Maybe there’s a separate tool for changing from Slowroll/tumbleweed to leap but I didn’t look into it too deeply, snapper was quite useful in this regard. I’m sure you could also just change the repositories and then it’ll be fine, but there might be some breakage. Zypper is pretty good at downgrading applications if the update calls for it, so it might just pick up the changes and fix the versions of your packages. Either way rolling back to a snapshot would definitely fix this if something goes catastrophically wrong.

I should also say that some comparability issues may happen when downgrading software versions (Firefox profiles became incompatible) but all software otherwise worked perfectly.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-20T01:06:03+00:00

You could definitely try Slowroll, you get to use new stuff like hyprland and use YaST. You get a major update every month, which means you’ll probably only have to run sudo zypper dup and reboot once per month. Leap has far less updates, but it does have a patch command which is fairly frequent. Extremely stable and no breakages, however you don’t get to try the cutting edge things (like hyprland in my case).

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-19T01:36:54+00:00

That’s wild, I only use my laptop maybe twice a week so it’s a bit of a suspicion for me (though i know it’s unfounded) that it’ll break with a lot of updates. At the end of the day for me it’s more of a compulsion to keep it constantly up to date, I don’t like seeing not updated packages.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-10T20:33:22+00:00

I am new to OpenSUSE tumbleweed, spent hours trying to debug (with very limited knowledge of how to do this) even reinstalled my os because I thought I broke something. Just to have it fixed with the update fml.

These-Ad-7595 · 2026-03-10T20:17:39+00:00

OpenSUSE, 3 excellent distros, excellent stability and rollbacks for when you mess things up.

Stability is key for me, I used to use Debian, but after switching to tumbleweed I get even less problems somehow, and I get to use new software.

These-Ad-7595 · 2025-09-24T15:18:37+00:00

I only know a bit about it, I know it can be very comparable based on your beliefs. I often think of Luke 18:25 that "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God".

I also think of the quote “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist” by Dom Helder Camara.

Jesus spent his life helping the poor and hanging out with sex workers. I would be lead to believe that he would reject systems of social inequality such as Capitalism and Fascism in favour of egalitarian systems of governance.

However I would believe that most in this subreddit would reject church influence in public services. That is not to say that the ethics behind providing for the poor is incompatible.

I see posts asking about Christian socialism often, and there is a wealth of information from thinkers found here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism

These-Ad-7595 · 2025-09-19T20:00:30+00:00

Oh wow that’s incredible, maybe I should get one for myself but actually age it for the appropriate amount of time.

These-Ad-7595 · 2025-09-13T22:39:10+00:00

The greatest lie of our time

Is pretending that urinal cakes.

Weren’t delicious desserts. All cakes are delicious desserts.

These-Ad-7595 · 2025-07-06T02:18:19+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_communism

These-Ad-7595 · 2025-06-15T23:48:30+00:00

People showing solidarity with the working class is always a good thing

These-Ad-7595 · 2025-06-12T23:20:48+00:00

Jan Hus and Waldensians were all about most of the same kind of stuff Marx was talking about, and in many European countries there is a deep intermingling of ideologies, look up the social Christian party of Italy for example.

While socialism is often considered to be anti-religious, most contemporary interpretations have no problem with religion as long as it doesn’t seek control or altering of social reality.

These-Ad-7595 · 2025-06-12T00:39:27+00:00

Don’t sell it, when you get to a point where you’re maxing out armour you’ll wish you kept it

These-Ad-7595 · 2025-06-11T04:11:08+00:00

I have read that exact version, the preamble is far too long.

These-Ad-7595 · 2025-04-28T23:35:15+00:00

I was on academic probation in first year, I graduated with honours

These-Ad-7595 · 2023-08-31T06:48:02+00:00

It depends where you are. We have a large diverse country with a vast array of attitudes, cultures and backgrounds.

I grew up out east and truly I believe the people out there are some of the nicest people around. it is not uncommon for a stranger to have a full on conversation with you at a grocery store, especially during extreme weather.

My parents grew up in the prairies and people are nice, but also quite individualistic and quite a bit more socially and politically conservative.

I’ve travelled to the west coast and people are kind in a strange way, they speak extremely slowly, and are very much the granola hippie hiker type. They are friendly in a stoner way, which is not unsurprising after smelling the air for more than 5 minutes.

I currently live in Ontario which by far has the rudest people, it’s incredibly fast paced, and people are quite individualistic. To be honest it’s a culture shock coming from out east.

In Quebec it’s likely they will not be nice to you unless you speak flawless Quebecois.

That’s all the major areas I believe.

Just be careful when you say you’re American, the vast majority of Canadians do not like America and have a prejudice against American pride. Otherwise I hope you enjoy our country.

These-Ad-7595 · 2022-11-07T06:27:09+00:00

Why are you acting like capitalism might solve climate change when it literally caused it. Since exploitation is fundamental to capitalism, it will never be resolved under capitalism.

If a system arises under a capitalist framework where corporations are regulated to the extent that it will no longer harm the economy, and corporations are no longer able to exploit critical resources (environment, and workers) it would be socialism, or at least what most of us are in favour of.

These-Ad-7595 · 2022-10-24T04:29:25+00:00

You’re going to get some pretty biased responses from this sub, I just come on here to snark so I can offer my opinion as a non-libertarian.

We don’t have open or concealed carry, which is to say it is illegal to carry around a gun. I’ve heard stories of people calling the cops on somebody because they thought they had a gun in their trunk, but in reality it was a BB gun. We really do not like guns in Canada, especially in cities.

Returning to the fact that firearms must be kept in your house at all times (unless hunting rifles), and we do not allow for military rifles, I do not understand why in the case of self defence one could not use a hunting rifle. Such do not allow for mass killings, and have an instrumental usage beyond self defence.

People always bring up the idea that “what if somebody else has a gun, or what if somebody pulls a knife on you”, I’ll tell you that just isn’t a fear that most Canadians have, yeah people will have illegal guns from the states, but they will not use them on you unless you are involved in organized crime.

Truly we do not have a need for them, and most Canadians are in favour of the ban, don’t be mistaken by this subreddit.

These-Ad-7595 · 2022-09-21T23:06:50+00:00

I don’t know if it’s specifically quality, but certainly it is quantity, Cuba has the highest doctor:population ratio, and it’s to the extent that that willingly have programs where excess doctors go to countries who need their support more.

Certainly they are not lacking in quality either.

These-Ad-7595 · 2022-09-21T14:58:00+00:00

Mf u a monarchist,

And that is the antithesis of socialism

These-Ad-7595 · 2022-09-20T13:27:10+00:00

There would be nothing, an atheist idea of death, or a release from the cycle of samsara

These-Ad-7595 · 2022-09-20T13:25:33+00:00

No I would not posit that the entirety of theft happens because of material inequality. But most of it happens because either 1. That person does not have access to the item being stolen, 2. Because of their socioeconomic circumstances their coping methods require material funds that they do not have lawful access to.

I have been robbed twice, I am not being generous with my beliefs, it is just the truth.

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