AfD, BSW, SPD. Ich verstehe nicht, wie man derzeit ernsthaft Russlandfreund sein kann. Aber vielleicht übersehe ich auch etwas.

In Zeiten extremer Meinungspolarisierung ist es Bürgerpflicht alles zutun, um aus seinen Meinungssilos auszubrechen und den Versuch zu starten eine ganzheitlichere Meinungsbildung zu gewährleisten.

Warum? Wer sich in Echokammern zurückzieht leistet einer verdummten, unfairen, undifferenzierten Gesellschaft Vorschub. Anstatt nach Wahrheit und einer sinnvollen Erklärung zu streben, steht dann die Verleumdung eben dieser im Vordergrund. Wer nicht bereit ist andere Meinungen respektvoll zu hören, wer nicht bereit ist seine Meinung ggf. zu ändern bereitet denen einen Weg an die Macht, denen Wahrheit nichts bedeutet.

In einer Echokammer zu verharren macht einen persönlich arm und auch die Gesellschaft.

So far I have worked on many different projects, seeing many different approaches to modern web application development including among others:

Thymeleaf, Freemarker, ZK, Angular2, Vue.js, React and Vaadin

to facilitate rendering of a UI. Obviously, there are always advantages and disadvantages and different paradigms involved.

With all the advantages that do exist with modern js frameworks, it also almost always feels like a lot of bloat and overhead to me to work with these frameworks.

More recently, I did work with Vaadin, and as a Java developer at heart, I rarely felt that much „at home“ for creating a UI.

I have to admit, it is still quite handy to know your js and css for special behaviours and edge cases, but something in me just loves working with Vaadin.

So now we can talk a lot about Performance and stuff, but Vaadin‘s simplistic approach is imho very much appealing to people who Like Java.

It might not be the best fit for everything, but it can surely get you far, and it seems that indeed quite a few companies are leveraging its advantages.

I am curious, anyone else with a positive opinion about Vaadin out there?

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I recently move to openSUSE from Ubuntu, because I simply felt a bit awkward with Canonical. Now you could say there is SUSE behind openSUSE as well, and the world is not perfect. That is true, but I really do not like the fact that Canonical would receive any of my data, as irrelevant as it might seem. I also rather happily pay for a product than unintentionally share data with a corporation. Now that said, Ubuntu is still a great OS and you can turn off telemetry and as a pragmatic computer user I have nothing against snaps.

Still there were some minor points that added to the aforementioned awkward feeling and made me switch: 1.) An annoying dysfunctional bluetooth connection to my headphones 2.) An extremely short battery life on my Thinkpad 3.) General performance felt not as good

Now coming to openSUSE. I knew the distro from years ago and thought I give it another try. And I was not disappointed. After some years of rudimentary Linux experience (mostly Ubuntu and Linux Mint) I can even appreciate openSUSE more than ever.

There are certainly a lot of soft facts that let you choose openSUSE:

• It is easy to install, still leaves you room to play around with stuff.
• It has a pretty stable KDE integration (which leads to a great DE experience)
• It has a good community behind it
• It is mostly based out of central europe (#dataprivacy)
• Rollbacks are just great and already saved my ass

I am not sure whether I would recommend it for newbies altogether, despite it being really stable, it still has the look and feel of a distro for an intermediary skillset. This is mostly because of the look and feel of the installer and YaST. Maybe it has to do with the fact that you certainly would need to use the console from time to time. But then again, at least Tumbleweed is advertised as such a distro. Hence, no one can really complain about these things.

I am using IntelliJ and Podman a lot, the experience under Ubuntu was a bit better, as it really just worked out of the box (with snaps). For openSUSE it took some tweaks so that everything works (out of Flatpaks). Might be an unfair comparison, but being productive easily is still a good measure. Using IntelliJ wo Flatpak was an annoyance, so therefore I have chosen the Flatpak path ;)

But putting in a little effort to make the IntelliJ stuff work was worth it since the overall performance is MUCH better. Of course it could be due to different DE, but it still just feels great to work on openSUSE. And indeed battery life is much, much better. I did not do any measurements, but I would say we are talking at least about 30% improvement (and yes I had TLP installed on Ubuntu).

Additionally, Bluetooth worked flawlessly (like everything else I was doing so far).

There was one little bug though with my background in the lock screen that somehow did magically change for a while.

Gaming with Steam also works easily, although you might need to change codecs for headphones in order to hear stuff. But I had a similar problem under Ubuntu.

As usual differences in distros sometimes are marginal, at least for the non-Linux nerd-faction, so for me its really the mixture of the philosophy behind, the performance, how easy I can do and understand things.

Overall, great experience with openSUSE. I can recommend. Would be great to hear responses to my experience.