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Why openSUSE? (reddthat.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

First, let me be clear up front that I'm not promoting the idea that there should be one "universal" Linux distro. With all the various distros out there for consumers, there's lots of discussion about Arch, Debian, and Fedora (and their various descendant projects), but I rarely see much talk about openSUSE.

Why might somebody choose that one over the others? What features or vision distinguishes it from the others?

Edit: I love all the answers! Great stuff. Thanks to everyone!

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I dont like that Yast competes with the KDE Settings, but having everything in a GUI is key and distros should fork it.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not that much, Yast deals with the system, the Kde settings deal with the desktop. There isn't that much overlap.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I think there is. KDE settings deal with Bluetooth, devices etc. Discover deals with repos and more.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Every time I've tried to use discover it was a mess. I think you can use it if you use nothing else, or you're better off forgetting about it entirely.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I use it with Fedora Atomic KDE, rpm-ostree is not meant for that and a pain to use so I remove the package.

The Flatpak integration doesnt use PackageKit and works well, but it doesnt display the data nicely and is too slow. GNOME software is way better for Flatpaks, COSMIC Apps is way faster.

It is useful for fwupd but at the same time a bit bulky for that.

It is also a frontend for all the KDE Extensions and works very well here.

this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2024
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