• youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    OpenSUSE is hardly what I would consider noob friendly, but it certainly beats remaining under Microsoft’s oppressing thumb.

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      opensuse was my shortest experiment when i used to distro hop because of how old their software seemed to be. (ie old like debian stable).

      this was almost 20 years; has it gotten better?

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        My first experiment with openSUSE was also not ended well back then but nowadays it’s in my top 3 list when I’m suggesting distros to people.

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          … nowadays it’s in my top 3 list when I’m suggesting distros to people

          same here; but only because of the support like red hat’s and canonical’s

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            I’ve tried it a few times over the years, but always find it clunky when coming from Fedora, so I end up jumping right back. It’s also a real shitshow with my System 76 laptop WiFi, just doesn’t play nice and takes to much work to make it functional.

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              i take back what i said; i just discovered that suse isn’t going to support opensuse anymore.

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                  i was wrong. i misread the article thinking that opensuse was going to turn into an analogue similar to centos stream ending up with suse eventually sun setting opensuse like red hat is doing with centos; but no, they’re ARE doing a centos stream like model but it’s going to be back and forth between opensuse leap and opensuse tumbleweed.

                  opensuse is back on the recommended list. lol

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      I use it at home just because I wanted to try something different on my laptop, I really don’t understand what some people love about it so much. It’s bot terrible or anything, I just find it a bit clunky and there’s nothing remarkably good.

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        The big thing it has going for it is that they set up btrfs snapshots out of the box so you can rollback if necessary.

        They also do more automated testing than Arch so theoretically it should be more stable.