Well, this has been the most successful openSUSE experiment I have had in awhile... still... I have run into configuration issues. Most of them are around codecs and non-free software. Whereas Fedora makes it SUPER simple to just clickety-click, add repo, install non-free software, openSUSE makes it clickety click, install and... FAIL.
I am not sure what is the difficulty here, but repos seem to be out of sync, requirements ancient, stuff like that. It is a little disappointing that I cannot get VLC or Firefox running with the required libraries... or, when I DO add the libraries, I have to MANUALLY install various dependencies for the libraries themselves. Super annoying. And I still cannot get Firefox working properly with our local news website.
There IS an easy workaround: Google Chrome. Comes self packaged with all the goodies you will ever need. I am aware it phones home and google can monitor my every thought wave but... they already do through my smart phone, and other ways. (Paranoid much am I?)
Anyway, so I am still running openSUSE because it is working (with Chrome) and I can also play all of my games so far. Not sure how long this experiment will last though. I don't know what it is but openSUSE just does not feel good.
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