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?

  • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    OpenQA and BTRFS with Snapper by default w/ support in GRUB is the main selling point for most users

    The lack of debug packages in Arch is what drove me away as a developer

    OpenSUSE supports debuginfod which is so nice when developing locally

    I’d argue Arch is designed to be easy for package management on x86. If that’s your use case, it is quite easy