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Definitely on my list of sisters to boot into something like a VM to test out in the future. If I wasn't so worried about breaking things with rolling release, Tumbleweed would be much higher up on my list.
Love openSUSE! Been using tumbleweed with gnome for quite a bit and it's probably the best experience I have had with an operating system so far!
Tried Arch, Debian flavors, Nix, Fedora, and many of the other popular distros and they are all pretty darn good but the lizard Linux takes the cake for me! Highly recommend!
Currently using Fedora, what am I missing out on compared to suse?
For me it's specifically tumbleweed and it's great features. It's a rolling release distro so all the newest packages, easy to setup, utilizes a btrfs file system (Fedora does this also) for easy rollbacks if something does break. And despite it being a rolling distro I have yet to have something actually break.
YAST can be nice sometimes as well but I tend to use terminal commands, however it's great for those who prefer a GUI, especially new folk.
One con I will list is package availability. It's repositories are a bit smaller than most of the other major distros and sometimes flatpaks or directly downloading rpms are needed but it's fairly rare for me at least.
So far my experience on it has been great for gaming, development, and just casual use. Highly recommend it to newbies and older Linux folks alike.
YAST. Personally, I think it's ass, but some people insist that it's OpenSUSE's killer software.
Yeast isn't bad but really Opensuse brings a really stable rolling release and the open build service. Leap is very stable and makes a great desktop. Plasma is great. Like most things it isnt for all uses but I've had Tumbleweed for years as my desktop OS and love it.
really stable rolling release
lol no. I did forget about OBS, though. That is actually great about OpenSUSE.
Edit: wait, the OBS also works on other distros so it's not something they're missing out on.
OpenSuse is such a mystery to me. In Debian, I know it's community run and there's a thousand developers all over the world and they vote and discuss everything. Ubuntu is corporate and that's easy to understand too. But OpenSuse? They say it's a community distro, but my (uneducated) feeling is that the community is like four Suse employees. Is there actually a community of developers? What is OpenSuse? If someone knows I'd like to know what it's like from the inside.
Here's a page from OpenSuse's website that links to some really interesting interviews with people who contribute to the project:
https://people.opensuse.org/index.html
Quote from interview with Ludwig:
Q: Three words to describe openSUSE? Or make up a proper slogan! A: Lots of fun!
Q: What do you think the future holds for openSUSE? A: The future is unwritten. As long as we have brilliant people we will see new ideas we havenโt thought about before.
Q: If you would have unlimited resources, what would you do with it? A: What kind of resources?
Q: Letโs say you have money to hire a thousand people to work on openSUSE. Who would you hire and what would you let them do? A: Finally fix RPM, printing and KDE? :-)
Q: Star Trek or Star Wars? A: Star Trek.
Q: Torvalds or Stallman? A: Pfft.
Interesting, thank you. I started reading through and realized there are no newer interviews than 8 years ago. And two of the three most recent interviews are of Suse employees. This kind of reinforces my feeling to be honest.
I noticed the age of the interviews after replying - kinda sad, reminded me of forums I joined around that time, and have since dried up as technology evolved. I actually ran opensuse for awhile around that time too (it was not very polished) - shame I didn't know about the interviews then.
Nowadays I run a Fedora-based distro called Ultramarine - which rocks! Fast, smooth, stable, versatile. Small but knowledgeable and very friendly Discord-based support. Sponsored by a small startup called Fyra Labs. I thoroughly recommend checking them out.
I have OpenSUSE Tumbleweed on a laptop, and recently I encountered a number of annoying bugs, including one being unable to receive updates from the h264 repository, and Plasma 6 annoying bugs.
I definitely wouldn't recommend it anyone unless you like to tinker and fix your system.
This only happened to me once but you just revert to the pre update snapshot in the boot menu and try again in a couple of weeks.
Yeah, it's a shit show. I put up with it for like 2 years until the update to Plasma 6 utterly broke my system and finally decided to switch.
What are you running now?
Fedora, which is also a shit show but not as much. I'll probably put up with it until it actually breaks like I did with OpenSUSE, though.
I just installed OpenSUSE on both my work and personal machines, having been on Kubuntu for many years prior to that. I love it so far!
So using Kubuntu is bad now? I just switched from Windows to Kubuntu and am Quote happy with it.
Using Kubuntu was always bad, friend. No politics about it, it's just shit. The worst KDE implementation.
I switched because of snaps, which I had been ignoring for a while but they pissed me off enough to cause me to switch. If you're ok with snaps, then no problem.
Kubuntu is also kind of European, because KDE e.V. is from Germany.
KDE Neon would probably a closer fit, as it's entirely maintained by KDE e.V., whereas Kubuntu still relies on Canonical
The switch wasn't due to geopolitics, but yeah.
Linux Mint is technically an Irish based distro, as well.
I came here to ask just this, good to know
Be aware that Suse, the parent company that donated the basis for opensuse to exist has asked them to change the branding and name for something that doesn't include Suse. So, keep your eyes peeled for that in the mid future.
Why not go 100 percent corporation free? https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
Back when I used to use Arch (btw), I had the bright idea of switching to Parabola because 99% of what I used was open source, only to find out that there's a hidden 5th freedom that's required for something to be classified as truly free software: Stallman's freedom to have his balls fondled. It tried to uninstall half of my packages because of ideological stupidity such as the software having optional closed source add-ons even though the part that I had installed was 100% open source. These distros are useless toys.
Because thos distros suck for any kind of real life use case. If you want a working OS with for gaming, your office job or just regular browsing, then this ain't it chief. If you want to have a project you have to tinker with every day, then sure, go for it! But most people don't want to be bothered by their OS.
These distros reject everything that is not free as in free speech. This means no binary drivers, no binary firmware, no binary software. While this is very idealistic, not in a bad way, it might be impractical for most people. Start with an "easy" Linux, you can always go the hardcore way afterwards.
The idiocy goes beyond rejecting non-free software. For example, Debian ticks all the boxes needed to be added to that list but it's not due to the fact that they dare to have a repository with non-free software that isn't even included in the OS.
Yeah ill be switching off of Fedora onto OpenSUSE as ive heard good things and Fedora is headed by Redhat, which is headed by IBM. I liked Fedora but its not anythung im super attached to so looking forward to learning OpenSUSE.
I thought it was swiss, huh
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