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This is more important if you use Tumbleweed with its frantic pace of updates, but even on Leap, if an update causes problems, the ability to simply boot back into a working snapshot is very useful in a crisis. By default, openSUSE formats your hard disk as a single large Btrfs volume, and enables the Snapper tool for system snapshots. (Sadly, the WebYaST online version is deprecated. It's to SUSE's credit that it still maintains this, and it works in text mode and over SSH. In the bad old days, most distros had tools like this, but the handful of other survivors from the early 1990s have dispensed with them. SUSE releases Service Pack 4 for Linux Enterprise 15.Good news for GNOME fans as Adaptive Sync displays come to Mutter.Linux Mint adopts Timeshift from overworked original developer.Apple offers improved Linux support in macOS Ventura.YaST lets you bypass almost all of that, using an easy menu-driven interface to configure just about every aspect of the system, from installing and updating software, the firewall, printers, the bootloader, to disk partitioning, including RAID and LVM. It's a point of pride among Linux illuminati to know where to find every obscure config file, what contents it should have, and which arcane text editor to use that allows them to accrue the most kudos from other geeks. The YaST2 system-administration tool is a huge boon. There are also a few tricks in openSUSE's repertoire that few other distros do out of the box. It uses the sensibly mainstream Firefox and LibreOffice, but most of the other components are KDE-specific apps, such as Kmail, Konversation, and Akregator. As Scott Gilbertson said way back in 2015: "openSUSE's KDE desktop is one of the slickest KDE implementations around" – and we'd still agree with that. We tried KDE, as well as taking a look at Deepin and Enlightenment. New in openSUSE Leap 15.4 is the Deepin desktop, but it still has a few rough spots
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