If developers want to make a desktop application they should use proper cross platform desktop frameworks like QT or GTK or even JavaFX instead of a webpage disguised as an application.

Can’t they be both? Potato potahto.

It will destroy the Universe if we do that. /s

? is the start of the suffixes, & denotes a change in suffix

Technically speaking they are query parameters not suffixes.

Windows update, at least since the inception of the concept has never required me to go to a browser

In xp it still was an website which required IE due to activex used to do the updates.

Can you give more details? What apps do you use? Anything worth noting? Thinking about doing this myself as well.

Second this. Tumbleweed is a great distro. Nearly everything you’ll need can be found in default repos. Then there are several endorsed (semi) official add-on repos, and if that fails there’s always OBS (opi is your friend for searching those).

Daily rsync to a local nas and weekly backups to offsite with pika-backup.

Excellent article. That’s why I use OSS first and foremost as they don’t have the incentive to bring in € instead they are more focused on a quality product.

It is against the GDPR.

In the EU this kind of automatic opting-in to marketing/data sharing is against the GDPR as it requires explicit consent from user/customer. I’m in the EU and have those settings but they were both toggled off, as expected.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missionary_Church_of_Kopimism

I stand corrected. I use Tumbleweed so have not kept up to date on that front.

OpenSuse is already by itself a well rounded distro. It supports multiple desktops out-of-the-box, is highly customizable so it doesn’t really need forks.

SUSE Linux Enterprise isn’t really a fork. OpenSuse Leap is to SLE a bit like Fedora is to Red Hat i.e. the community version which is then frozen at some point to build SLE.

It is. It’s a rolling release so it has the latest packages. It’s not bleeding edge like arch. All software goes thru an automatic testing in OpenQA before they are allowed in the repo so there’s some quality control. It’s also very stable.

I’m on the Other category, both for home and work. I use Tumbleweed in both.

I’m in the EU and that section in the settings isn’t even there. I guess they aren’t doing it here, for now at least. Probably due to GDPR.

Have you tried Okular?

Valve releasing Proton.

Under GDPR this kind of data collection and sharing HAS to be opt-in i.e. with an informed consent. You can’t just bury it in your TOS and/or privacy policy. The user has to be explicitly shown what they are collection, on what basis they are doing it and how they are using it, then give the user the choice to accept or decline that, and they have to respect that decision.