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Can you elaborate on SuSE being hostile towards open source?
Wow, what a story! It ties so many apparently distant things together
Seconding Endeavour - Gives you all the benefits of Arch (the wiki, the freakin AUR) without so much of the... Assembly required part. They give you a desktop, a web browser and a firewall and you're off to the races. A perfect in between, IMO.
Arch Linux has
archinstallnowThis. No diss to Endeavour, but Arch is just as easy using Archinstall
The problem is honestly Arch Linux isn't missing anything or doing anything wrong that requires a forked distro (except for being hard to install). I loved Manjaro and the Manjaro community too, but at the end of the day it really just doesn't sell anything besides an installer
No this is actually super interesting, I'll have to take a look
That's disappointing to hear. openSuSE is pretty much my go to to recommend new people exactly because from my experience with it it is well maintained but not entangled too much in corporate bullshit. What have they done?
Here is another one to switch to: Gentoo