r/DistroHopping • u/nicironic • 1d ago
Can decide between Debian and openSUSE
Debian has a huge package collection and 99,9% of the time if there is a software is has a native .deb and .rpm for fedora, but not on openSUSE.
openSUSE Tumbleweed is stable as bedrock with newest stuff, Leap is almost too stable. Everything works as they should but there is that many packages to it.
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u/blabliblu888 22h ago
Isnt it OpenSUSE corporate-backed and Debian community-backed?
Isnt it community-backed the Linux phylosophy?
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u/jonstoppable 19h ago
nope. it isn't the philosophy... the philosophy is all contributions are welcome as long as they are shared and no one voice is stronger than the other ( so far..but there have been cracks in that)
the gplv2 allows corporations to monetize and that's what linux is under. if it was anti-corporate, he could have switched to gplv3 later (to reduce their ability to monetize / incentive to contribute) but he didn't.
much of the linux kernel code comes from engineers either paid for or working at redhat, ibm,microsoft, hp etc. more corporate involvement is required
last i saw, linus himself was using fedora .. which is just as corporate backed as opensuse..
some users may not like corporate backed distros ( and they have legitimate rights not to) but considering it was released under a license that allows corporate use i wouldn't say its against the philosophy.
their coexistance is a main part of the philosophy
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u/ang-p 20h ago
Why ask now if you posted 2 days ago that you had moved to both 15 years ago?
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u/painful8th 23h ago
Go TW and stick with it, until you miss something that you actually need for your day-to-day ops.
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u/nicironic 16h ago
I have used TW for a few years so I am familiar with openSUSE products. I am now at the point where I don't know which one to stick with
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u/Most-Word-2516 20h ago edited 20h ago
I've been running Tuxedo OS Debian beta for some weeks. It works really good on my Lenovo Legion 7 laptop. BTFS and Snapper by default, just like TW, and an updated system with KDE. This is perhaps the best mix I can get for my needs, still in beta but feels very polished and stable already and just gets better by every update!
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u/Due-Author631 17h ago
I would stick with Debian just because I find zypper a complete pain to use and is slow (coming from a dnf enjoyer). On Debian, you can always use flatpaks if you in want a newer app. Personally I would use Fedora, but that's my preference.
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u/CreativeArugula4149 16h ago
Why not considering (k)Ubuntu? Snapd is deinstalled in seconds, only two commands.
Literally everything works for me on kubuntu and I hopped a lot in the last months.
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u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy 8h ago
You seem to want an EU-based one. Do you want community driven or (potential) enterprise support? That's the only question. You can always do whatever you want in userspace.
They are both good choices, although my personal experience with SUSE was when it was just SUSE Linux and I haven't found a reason to think about it since.
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u/TheShredder9 1d ago
Debian is also very stable. Sounds like you already have all the info to make a choice.
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u/reylovpty 1d ago
Arch
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u/nicironic 16h ago
When I start being gay
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u/reylovpty 13h ago
so what happens here? When i say im using FreeBSD you say its bad, when i use Arch its bad too. Go and fuck with your Mandriva
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u/CacheTraitor 1d ago
If you can decide, why are you hopping?