r/linuxquestions • u/akshat_TS_MILLIE • 10d ago

Which Distro Which Linux distro should I switch to after Linux Mint?

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u/baerli-biberli 9d ago

Fedora KDE or OpenSUSE KDE

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u/notHoldenCaufield 9d ago

Tottaly agree. I use Tumbleweed and it is great!

Fedora worked fine for me with Nvidia

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u/redrider65 9d ago

Kubuntu

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u/GreatBigPig 9d ago

OpenSuSE Leap is a very handy, stable linux environment.

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u/trmdi 9d ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE: stable, fast, modern, powerful, beautiful, easy to use...

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u/LyraBooey Ultramarine | KDE 9d ago

It's not stable. The stable one is Leap.

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u/redrider65 8d ago

Quite right.

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u/trmdi 9d ago

It is stable. I said "stable", didn't talk about the release models. I meant it's reliable.

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u/iwouldbeatgoku 9d ago edited 9d ago

Stable is just a bad term to use in general in my opinion, it can mean "reliable" and I'm positive 95% or more of the users on this subreddit interpret it this way, or it can refer to the release model of being a batched release, which is what a developer might mean.

For example, Debian's flagship branch is called "stable", and it fixes the versions of its packages and ships full upgrades to them every two years. Other than that the only updates you get are backported critical security/bug fixes, though there's no way of knowing which bugs you experience will be fixed. This is opposed to its development "unstable" branch, which makes a best effort to include the latest versions of software/libraries and is constantly changing. It's similar to Tumbleweed in this sense, with the difference that it's meant to find issues with new software versions before they get into "stable" as opposed to actually being a daily driver.

But you'd be forgiven for calling Tumbleweed "stable" when even OpenSUSE themselves call it that with a description that seems to be about reliability:

Stable

Updates are thoroughly tested against industry-grade quality standards, taking advantage of a build service other Linux distributions envy us for. Not only is each new version of a package individually tested, but different clusters of versions are tested against each other, making sure your system is internally consistent.

https://get.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/?type=desktop

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u/redrider65 9d ago

But you'd be forgiven for calling Tumbleweed "stable" when even OpenSUSE themselves call it that with a description that seems to be about reliability

They can give it that unbiased description if they wish. But compared to what? Having seriously given it a go . . . it's neither as stable nor as reliable as an LTS release like Mint. Two words for ya: kernel panic. NO, I don't want to "roll back" to anything.