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I grew tired of shitty "Top 10 Linux distros in ${CURRENT_YEAR}" articles so I wrote a blogpost, that I would personally consider helpful when I was starting out, so I can simply link it to people when they ask my opinion on a beginner distro.

Objective criticism is welcome and encouraged.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would suggest adding "easy rollback to good state" for OpenSUSE, it is probably the best feature. And while it shares binaries with SUSE now, it is not run by SUSE, it is a community build distro

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My bad, I thought openSUSE was ran by SUSE, but you are right and it is simply sponsored by them, will fix it as soon as I can. I will also mention the rollback feature and then I guess I'll also mention timeshift for Mint.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yeah I forgot Mint had that setup.