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by c00lio 1088 days ago
The reasons why (afaik) people use SuSE are YaST, localisation and accessibility.
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SEJeff 1088 days ago
Or they work for a European company that mandates it.

Outside of the desktop, yast is the first thing many sysadmins disable.

Source: I once professionally managed a cluster of SLES and OES servers for delta.

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c00lio 1087 days ago
Sure. I've only ever seen small-scale setups by less experienced people use YaST. Say, windows admins that do one or two Linux servers on the side.
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SEJeff 1084 days ago
I’d agree what that. Linux folks who don’t know Linux use Yast. Linux folks that know Linux disable it.

One of the first things we did was “chmod -x $(which yast2)” and disabled some of the other tooling so people didn’t run it and mess up configs we did with config management.

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