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?

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
    1·
    11 months ago

    I feel almost obliged to ask: there are lot of packages in Tumbleweed that are not available in Leap. Will packages from Tumbleweed be added to Leap with the next release? I want to use a static release distro and I’m currently on NixOS. The only distros that have all the packages I need are Arch, NixOS and Tumbleweed.

    • tophu@artemis.camp
      5·
      11 months ago

      Keep in mind that just because they said they’re a SuSE employee there’s a good chance they have nothing to do with OpenSuSE. SuSE the company has a much broader stroke.

    • naticus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      I JUST installed Leap for the first time earlier this week and I’m trying to make it my DD, but I’m curious now. What kinds of packages are missing that I might be concerned with? I use this PC for both gaming and for work, so I went GNOME since I need GTK for so many things even though I prefer KDE.