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opensuse is Debian and Arch combined?
No, I think it's saying that opensuse breeds Linux distros, and is trying to get Debian and arch to rub cloacas.
Also, opensuse once bit off a little chunk of someone's ear.
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Welcome to Linux. Enjoy your stay.
Well, that's how it feels at times, as someone who uses all 3 for various uses.
how so?
Arch is relatively great, but anyone who's used it for a while has had what should of been a simple update turn into a giant headache. Debian can minimize headaches but you give up the latest software for it. OpenSUSE just feels like the middle ground. You can run the latest software and spend less time sifting through forums because of an update. As a bonus you can always fall back on RPM packages, which can give a tiny bit more software compatibility than the AUR.
IMO OpenSUSE is what Manjaro wants to be lol
To be fair, OpenSuse is an umbrella of multiple distros other than Debian and Arch. There are
And then of course the whole Enterprise stuff around SLES (Suse Linux Enterprise Server). There's definitely a need to specify what "OpenSuse" actually means in any given context. π
I agree though, it's god damn great. The bootable btrfs snapshots that are set up by default in particular.
mike tyson is two pigeons
makes sense
Mike Tyson switched to OpenSuse but was considering Arch and Debian.
Nope, haha. OpenSuse is old.
This is an amazing graph. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg
OpenSuse comes from Suse which comes from Jurix and Slackware. There's a dotted line from Redhat, because of the use of the RPM format, but that is as far as their interbred. Many people consider it one of the OG distros.
Arch sprang from the aether later, but one could argue it owes Gentoo for its concept (also a dotted line there).
Debian is an OG. It, Redhat, and Suse are approximately the same age.
Slackware on the other hand just keeps going.
Can confirm. Slackware user since 1995 when I had to puchase diskettes through Walnut Creek Distributors.
That's an older version rendered by the GitHub project that does those.
https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline
Their releases page has current ones:
https://github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTimeline/releases
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is pretty much like Arch with more graphical tools and more QA. And if you want to have it a little bit more stable like Debian you use OpenSUSE Leap.
Yep. I think the reason the AUR on Arch hosts a lot of unmaintained packages that cause breaking changes at least in my experience. OpenSUSE TW basically is the sweet spot, though I've had one or two bad updates I've always been able to roll back with Snapper.
I wish TW was more mainstream a distro, as it's solves problems people complain about a lot with Linux (i.e. stable releases not supporting new hardware, rolling releases breaking randomly).
I genuinely believe the age of the distro hurts its appeal for Linux youtubers to spruke the later distro.
There's also an additional middleground between them, Slowroll. Still a rolling distro but slower with feature updates for additional stability.
Leap tends to be rather outdated as it keeps binary-compatibility to SLES. Of course makes it as stable as possible, but also more often than not uncomfortably lacking behind.