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Switching from Linux Mint to OpenSuSE Tumbleweed very soon. Any advice? (lemm.ee)
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Linux Mint was the distro I chose little less than a year ago when I switched to Linux. Used it with Cinammon at first and then switched to XFCE. It's been a cool journey and I have def learned a lot.

But over time Mint has left more to be desired, most specifically, more up to date packages. Hence why I'm leaving the Debian / Ubuntu based distros to try OpenSuSE TW with Gnome.

Any advice would be appreciated

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[–] Clasm@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I made the same switch earlier this year. The only real issues I can recall were learning to update flatpak manually because it holds up the other updates if I don't do that through the Konsole first.

Granted, that might just be my system, but I generally have had far fewer issues with Tumbleweed than I've ever had with Mint.

Oh, and my art tablet gets tagged as a game controller for some reason, but it works for what I need it for so I haven't bothered to fix it.