Long term OpenSuSE users, how has your experience been? - eviltoast

I have been using Mint for about six months now and while I am not going to start distro hopping, I slowly want to start exploring the rest of Linux.

Originally I was looking at Arch based distros such as Manjaro and EndeavourOS, during which I found out Manjaro is somewhat pointless because you pretty much should not use the AUR on Manjaro or else you will break the system inevitably. EndeavourOS looked solid though.

However, I got a few suggestions regarding OpenSuSE Tumbleweed as a better alternative to Arch based distros and just wanted to know what are the pros and cons of OpenSuSE compared to Arch based distros from your experience?

  • Drew@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    1 year ago

    why would you suggest someone use a rhel clone? They’re not exactly desktop distros

    • tr1x@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Any LTS is good for reliability. RHEL clones are pretty good just depends on what someone is looking for.

      Edit:
      For an actual reason, mainly for the length of the LTS as rocky and alma I believe have a 10 year LTS while Debian have a 5/6 year LTS (sorry if that’s wrong, haven’t checked the length of the LTS in a while)