Yeah it's alright. I've been using Tumbleweed on my Desktop PC for the last few months and I gotta say it's mid. They do hard drive unlocking in Grub instead of in the initfs which means that only LUKS 1 and with that only the not-so-secure PDKDF is supported, instead of argon2id which is the modern KDF you want to use. This is a small and annoying oversight in the distros security which is why I will not be using it in the future
LUKS2 is only partially supported by GRUB; specifically, only the PBKDF2 key derivation function is implemented,
which is not the default KDF used with LUKS2, that being Argon2i (GRUB Bug 59409). LUKS encrypted partitions using
Argon2i (as well as the other KDF) can not be decrypted. For that reason, this guide only recommends LUKS1 be used.
You can fix this by manually placing the /boot partition outside of luks when you do your install. I did it and now my opensuse system boots in a reasonable time. Annoying to do but 100% worth it.
Luckily most installers support installing wherever you tell them to. So if you install from a live image you should be able to set it up the way you want. I'll definitely try that as soon as a I do my next installation.
I mean yes, generally the standard settings are fine for my deployments so that’s what I’m talking about. I agree the partitioner leaves something to be desired though.
It because zypper is incredibly slow. They’ve been slowly working on the features needed to make it faster but they haven’t come together yet. I would guess early 2025.
I don't like that it doesn't give you a live image by default. It's kind of hard to find them on the website.
I think my ideal installer would be one that boots into a desktop and by default installs that and copies everything you've done there onto the installed system. Like "here you can start using your system right away, we'll ask you a few questions and then do the pesky installation stuff for you in the background".
I also like that it installs the apps right after first boot in microos. That's awesome. Unfortunately I like the image based system of fedora a tiny bit more.