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Watch, Google's gonna patch this now so we can't do it anymore since it's getting attention. Thanks, Lew!

I'm with you on all points here I've distro hopped a ton and I've been super happy with OpenSUSE so far. My ONLY complaints have been no Spotify app, and one time where my laptop wouldn't boot anymore, but I was able to be back up in ~10 minutes because SUSE's installer found my account still on the device and set everything back up for me during re-install. OpenSUSE has literally been the most painless distro I've used so far I've really been itching to give Arch another try (Gentoo is wayyy out of my league. Couldn't even figure out Sabayon lol), but I'm so happy with OpenSUSE right now, I don't want to give that up. Maybe I'll try again in a VM.

I've only seen Tek Syndicate's video on getting Ubuntu on an SP3, and they had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get it to work. I wasn't sure if it was still like that or not.

Oh man, I don't know about the SP1. Don't you need special touchscreen drivers and a custom compiled kernel for that? But what do you mean, "these"? The network/DVD install? Or desktop environments? I lost you , sorry.

Maybe try the Network Install. It should be a much smaller ISO as far as I know.

Really? That's surprising. Did you download the DVD or the Network Installation?

Go for Antergos. ArchBang does everything except the partitions for you, and that's where things go wrong. Antergos is the safer option here.

If you're really triple booting, enhhh... No. Too much can go wrong in the install if you don't know what you're doing. I haven't managed to install it without having a dual boot (let alone triple!), And I consider myself to be at least proficient with Linux. It's your funeral though lmao

Damn, sorry. OpenSUSE is the WORST when it comes to the ISO download. It's 5GB because they have all of the desktop environments you can install in the ISO file, that way you don't need an internet connection to install. Or something like that

Oh sorry, I thought you were asking if you have to torrent it. I found a torrent file on this page, you can try it and see if it works

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Tumbleweed_installation Should be on this page

Nah, Mint 18 just came out which is based on 16.04, but they were on 14.04 for the longest time because they base their releases on Ubuntu LTS releases

Elementary annoys me to no end... aren't they still based on Ubuntu 14.04 as well?

I use Tumbleweed, but it really doesn't matter. Most people will tell you to go the safe route and use Leap (more stability because it's not rolling release), but I've had no problems with Tumbleweed. Your choice really.

Awesome!

You'll pick it up really quickly. For OpenSUSE, the commands are, "zypper in" for install, "zypper up" for update, "zypper rm" to remove a package. SUSE has a cheatsheat on their website somewhere, I'll try to find it for you and link it EDIT: Zypper Cheat Sheet

Try OpenSUSE. I gave it a try just for shits and gigs and ended up really liking it. It's no harder to install or use than Debian (the installer is actually very similar) and it's way more up to date than Debian is, especially if you run Tumbleweed. If you really wanted to try Arch, ArchBang is a good place to start, or Manjaro/Antergos if you want to do even less work.

Are you asking out of curiosity or out of paranoia? Mint itself wasn't compromised, their website was. They uploaded a hacked version of the ISO onto the website, and they compromised their forums, but the OS itself is still secure. I can't say for certain whether other distros have had any actual security issues, but I know that Linux in general is very secure because A) nobody very few people writes viruses for Linux. Not enough people use it for it to be worth a hacker's time, and B) any security holes can be easily patched and distributed before any real harm can be done.

Oh, you're right, it is. You have to download the torrent file from the site and then use a program like uTorrent or BitTorrent or whatever you want to download the ISO file.

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads

I wrote a guide for getting started a while ago, it's linked in my signature if you want to take a look. It's not the best guide ever, but I tried to cover all the basics.

I dual boot right now, but I'd kill to be able to hit "delete" on that Windows partition. Gaming is the only thing holding me back from that (maybe 1/5th of my games are on Linux)

Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Elementary OS are all great "install -and-go" web browsing distros. Most Ubuntu/Debian based distros are pretty easy to set up and learn to use.

I switched my laptop over to OpenSUSE so I could write a section on it in my Linux tutorial post, and while I'm loving it so far, I've been having trouble getting Spotify installed. It's probably the one program besides Steam that's given me the most trouble across all the distros I've tried. I've tried this, this, and user justsomepersononredd's on Reddit's idea here. I now have a Spotify application installed, but it won't launch. I think along the way I figured out that I need a dependency along the lines of "libgcrypt.so.11", but I searched for it and there isn't a package for it in the SUSE repos. Should I just run it in Wine? I'd rather it be native, but that is an option I suppose.

So I've had a pretty busy summer and haven't really been on the forums, and as a result haven't gotten around to trying out OpenSUSE. I'm just here to say that the ISO file for Tumbleweed is downloading right now, and I should have the SUSE section of the guide written by next week (also it's probably not a bad idea to bring this post back to the top, my notifications were filled with the kinds of questions that this guide was written to answer. Would be nice to get a sticky, but I'm not sure this is really a sticky-quality post... oh well)