Do you know if you installed in legacy BIOS or EFI mode? If its EFI then most BIOS screens have a method to then pick the actual EFI entry (if the bootup discovers more than one) and you can then set it to boot Linux (and hopefully your Linux install did a probe OS and chainloaded to your Windows Boot). I had this issue before.

I also had an HP recovery partition getting invoked every time windows booted and detected change. The remedy wiping the drive to her ride of that stupid partition

Could be you need to set boot partition EFI in BIOS, or could be a recovery partition messing things up for you

I had no issue with HP, even with secure boot. Just had to pick boot order in BIOS

Gnome has touchscreen in mind, but you can totally use its hotkey system and navigate much quicker than point and click functions in Windows. Its a simple DE that gets out of your way to focus on your task, whenever I go back to Windows for work I’m frustrated by all the nonsense

It’s all we had in the early 90s for archiving :)

Gnome is different and at first I was lost, but after figuring out the basics is amazingly well integrated and just works as expected. KDE is super configurable but always feels a little off in a hard to describe way, like little quirks or lags or other papercuts.

The repos have a lot of stuff, but if you ever get stuck for q package you can install debs with alien command, or find community repoes here https://software.opensuse.org/ They typically offer 1 click installs, or direct rpm downloads

With OpenSUSE Leap sleep always worked for me, (even hibernate works) but if you had it as external monitor only then sometimes the screen power off would not come back on, and the laptop screen was told to stay off. I found myself using KDEconnect on my phone to try to cycle monitor power on/off command and sometimes it figured it out

OpenSUSE TUMBLEWEED, always updating, but they have an OpenQA tool that checks the builds for success, and if for some reason something did go bad you just reboot and pick the previous (automatic) snapshot. Lots of GUI tools to manage the system and packages via the various Yast2-GUI apps.

Yes, its really good, and every time somebody say “Linux needs ____ to make its use easy for new comers”. My answer is typically uhm, openSUSE already has it.

That can be:

• OneClick installs
• GUI package management
• GUI service and system settings
• auto cleaning of btrfs

OpenSUSE, you can rollback your OS if an update, or your own mistake, borks it. GUI interface for a lot of stuff. It defaults to enforcing Secure Linux these days. This is a good thing but means extra steps if you want to access certain things remotely, so you can set it to complain or off, instead of the enforcing setting.

Still has binary blobs for part of the code though, so we have no clue if it is 100% secure

To be fair many people out there are just becoming more horrible and its not worth your effort ;)

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OpenSUSE has OneClick install for RPMs. https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:One_Click_Install

Edit: and if you happen to download an rpm, you just double click it in the filemanager (or single click if that is your setting) and it launces the install GUI.

Its similar to how MSI file install looks…just next next finish kind of thing

I got dragged to a Revolting Cocks concert. Nothing prepared me for the giant phallus the lead singer pulled from under his kilt and squirted a foamy liquid over the front row audience. It was a fake one not his own, but I was a bit like wtf.

Bike riding in the 80s and jumping ramps, the slope was too high and sent the bike upward so I let go (bad plan) and supermanned myself across the pavement on my chest. I had vertical road rash stripes all down my front.

Not what the distro meant by release

Music from Microsoft when they had the store and original DRM. They later shut it down and on newer Windows had no way to restore your DRM keys, so the music was useless/locked. Their support basically said “oh well”. Eventually I got around the DRM by an ancient version of Roxio CD burner, somehow because it came out before MS DRM it just read the track and burned it to CD, there was no DRM checking I guess

I ran into this with HDMI on motherboard, not always though. My remedy was, since I had KDE connect on phone and PC, that I run a display shut down and wake command from the phone. It seems to wake something up in the OS