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    [–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    What's your argument for that?

    I use nixos btw... Which isn't better when hydra has been down for a whole week now

    [–] mlg@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

    OpenSUSE Tumblweed is just rolling redhat with cleaner standards like Fedora.

    Saying OpenSUSE Leap is better than rolling releases Arch is a dumb comparison because you can apply that logic to any decent release based distro.

    Arch will always be first for bleeding edge which is its primary use case. It would make sense to compsre it to Tumbleweed which achieves the same thing without the artificial PITA "debloat" of Arch requiring you install basic GNU stuff manually but still shipping with a fat as hell systemd dependency.

    It has the downside of less 3rd party packsge support though. You'll likely find more in Arch and AUR than RPMFusion or COPR, especially for new stuff.

    Leal and Fedora are cutting edge. Tumbleweed and Arch are bleeding edge.

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    OpenSUSE will almost certainly feel slower and heavier than Arch on any given hardware. Zypper is way way way slower than pacman, more stuff is installed out of the box, and at least personally I see a lot of slowdowns due to BTRFS doing various maintenance. There are a lot of great reasons to use OpenSUSE, I've been using Tumbleweed on my desktop for years, but this is not one of them.

    [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

    When installing openSUSE you can click the software packages hyperlink before accepting the install overview, and it brings you to the package list so you can remove patterns, or go detailed view and deslesect all and then select individual packages. You don't have to accept their default that it presents.

    [–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
    [–] CarlLandry357@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Some Linux users don't have winter though.

    [–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Woah, this just made me realize nix flakes are named so because the distro icon is a snowflake.

    [–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 week ago

    And every flake has a lock file which makes it unique.

    [–] madthumbs@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

    Repositories are what can make or break a distro, and OpenSUSE's sucks. Way too dependent on distro-agnostic software (bloat).

    [–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 week ago

    Och. This post could have been so much more.

    [–] houndeyes@toast.ooo 4 points 1 week ago
    [–] teft@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    That’s certainly an opinion.

    [–] terraquad@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    just a statement (two if you take the post body into consideration)

    [–] bryndos@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

    I'm not certain it is an opinion, I think it's a moderately successful trolling of a bunch of squares who take meme posts seriously.

    I'm not certain that it counts as a meme though.

    Probably should be linux-shitpost, I don't really know the difference though.

    [–] insomniac_lemon@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 week ago

    Slowroll is an interesting idea, but not much talk about it (maybe because experimental) and when I tried Tumbleweed I hated patterns. It also seems like the update model could be better, like a combo of security updates and stability based on ABI compatibility checks (ideally avoid breakage even if it means an older package, mark issue type with applications and tell me when updating may actually fix).

    Nix too, but I'm not sure it'd do what I want easily. Plus, no dynamic linking is a double pain for me (on top of normal software, Godot+Nim-lang). Not sure about redundancy of app containers (which update on a diff time-frame) while having slow internet.

    Legacy nvidia driver that's a pain now, too.