Hear me out, the mascot is a freaking chameleon, that’s cool as shit man.

Also it’s a German engineered distro, German engineering wins again!

Zypper is just a funnier name for a package manager and it has Tumbleweed which is arch but actually doesn’t break for once!

Your rebuttal?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I worked on a SuSE-derived Linux back in the day.

    What we agreed we’d be getting: a working product ready for customization an extension as required. What we got: a corpse with the skin and organs removed, effectively kicked out of a van at our doorstep before it drove off.

    It’s not that the packaging was bad - it was - but that the environment in and relations outside the organization were terrible. As it impacted our work and probably impacted their quality long-term, I’ve avoided it since.

    • bruhduh@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      What’s your recommendation for distro? Not arch or fedora please, bad experience with updates, both system broke almost always because i install a lot of software, so far only Debian worked good for me, but i want rolling release, maybe Debian sid gonna work for me, I’ve thinked of tubleweed recently but seeing your comment it got me thinking again

      • bsergay@discuss.online
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        4 months ago

        Not the person you asked, but wanted to offer my 2 cents.

        So you want rolling release, with lots of software installed and it should not break.

        • openSUSE Tumbleweed indeed seems like a logical fit.
        • If you’re fine with smaller projects, you could perhaps also consider
          • Garuda Linux: Arch-based with Btrfs snapshots and Snapper; similar to what openSUSE Tumbleweed utilizes
          • Siduction/SpiralLinux: both based on Debian’s rolling release; also with Btrfs snapshots and Snapper
        • If you’re okay with ‘immutable’ distros, consider the following
          • Fedora Atomic: current gold standard; the uBlue images specifically allow a very smooth transition
          • NixOS: more ‘powerful’ than Fedora Atomic, but ridiculous learning curve
          • blendOS: Arch-based. Small community and has only recently left alpha phase
        • Toribor@corndog.socialEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Bazzite has finally got me to pay attention to Fedora derivatives again for the first time in like 15 years.