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Why openSUSE? (reddthat.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/linux
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First, let me be clear up front that I'm not promoting the idea that there should be one "universal" Linux distro. With all the various distros out there for consumers, there's lots of discussion about Arch, Debian, and Fedora (and their various descendant projects), but I rarely see much talk about openSUSE.

Why might somebody choose that one over the others? What features or vision distinguishes it from the others?

Edit: I love all the answers! Great stuff. Thanks to everyone!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think it's mostly because a lot of users here are quite new. After a few years, you just want to do things with your system, not to it.

Back in the 90s I was all for breaking stuff and installing weird shit all the time (distributions were also much more rustic at the time). Nowadays, the less I notice my system, the better.

(So I run Tumbleweed)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I just got it tumbleweed is a rolling release because tumbleweeds roll in the wind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

And they said Germans couldn't make fun jokes?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

That's exactly why I am on Tumbleweed as well.

I am not German myself, but most of my colleagues are. Having gotten to know the German attitude towards technology, I feel I understand why life with openSUSE is as uneventful as it is. How anyone got them to adopt something as subversively radical as a rolling release model is something of a mystery to me, but I won't complain.