openSUSE. I mostly like it for its automatic filesystem snapshots. Or rather, I get anxious using other distros, because I feel like they could break at any point.
It also offers a really good KDE experience, solid package management and YaST, which is a system settings GUI.
I really wanted to give openSUSE Tumbleweed a try not too long ago because of how nice of a distro it looks like, plus having access to OBS looks great. I just worry about it being too bloated with packages that I wouldn’t really want. Also, Gecko Linux is based on openSUSE and has some small extra features. You should look into it!
As for GeckoLinux, yeah, it can be nice for newcomers.
Personally, I don’t need most of its changes (e.g. I don’t even have any proprietary or patent-encumbered packages knowingly installed), so for me it’s simpler to get to my preferred system via vanilla openSUSE, but yeah, many people might prefer GeckoLinux instead.
Oh, worry not, because it is most definitely bloated beyond repair. The standard installation takes 40GB. A big chunk of that is for the btrfs snapshots, but yeah, they’re also quite the opposite of thrifty when it comes to the number of packages they hand out.
I mean, I don’t want to sell this as an advantage, but it did kind of “cure” me. I used to care for the number of packages, but now that I could at best chip a few MB away at 40GB, I’ve given up that battle and my life has in no way become worse.
In fact, I’d say it has become slightly better, because I don’t anymore have to figure out which optional dependencies I’m missing – basically all of them get pulled in when I’m installing an application – and I have had situations where I was without internet, but the many pre-installed applications (that I never need) had the features that I needed.
I mean, there is legitimate use-cases where fewer packages are nice, and I will say that openSUSE Tumbleweed loves to push out updates for thousands of packages every few weeks, so without a fast internet connection the number of packages will be painful, but yeah, usually it’s a lot less big of a deal than people make it out to be.
Probably because it’s written in Python, which is a mind-bogglingly slow language.
You can do things like rewrite individual performance critical methods in C or Rust, but only if there are identifiable performance critical methods.
If it’s just a general slowness across the code, you would pretty much have to rewrite the whole thing in another language to fix that.
Well, 1) I’m a lazy bastard and setting something like that up sounds like work, and 2) snapshots are still nice by themselves. If I break my OS, I’m back to a working state in five minutes, even if I’m out and about with my laptop.
Yeah, I literally do nothing for my snapshots until the moment that I need them.
Obviously doing a little work for it isn’t the end of the world, but I like not having to think of it and not being able to fuck up, because I’m literally not involved.
openSUSE. I mostly like it for its automatic filesystem snapshots. Or rather, I get anxious using other distros, because I feel like they could break at any point.
It also offers a really good KDE experience, solid package management and YaST, which is a system settings GUI.
I really wanted to give openSUSE Tumbleweed a try not too long ago because of how nice of a distro it looks like, plus having access to OBS looks great. I just worry about it being too bloated with packages that I wouldn’t really want. Also, Gecko Linux is based on openSUSE and has some small extra features. You should look into it!
As for GeckoLinux, yeah, it can be nice for newcomers.
Personally, I don’t need most of its changes (e.g. I don’t even have any proprietary or patent-encumbered packages knowingly installed), so for me it’s simpler to get to my preferred system via vanilla openSUSE, but yeah, many people might prefer GeckoLinux instead.
Oh, worry not, because it is most definitely bloated beyond repair. The standard installation takes 40GB. A big chunk of that is for the btrfs snapshots, but yeah, they’re also quite the opposite of thrifty when it comes to the number of packages they hand out.
I mean, I don’t want to sell this as an advantage, but it did kind of “cure” me. I used to care for the number of packages, but now that I could at best chip a few MB away at 40GB, I’ve given up that battle and my life has in no way become worse.
In fact, I’d say it has become slightly better, because I don’t anymore have to figure out which optional dependencies I’m missing – basically all of them get pulled in when I’m installing an application – and I have had situations where I was without internet, but the many pre-installed applications (that I never need) had the features that I needed.
I mean, there is legitimate use-cases where fewer packages are nice, and I will say that openSUSE Tumbleweed loves to push out updates for thousands of packages every few weeks, so without a fast internet connection the number of packages will be painful, but yeah, usually it’s a lot less big of a deal than people make it out to be.
+1 for OpenSUSE. I tried to give Fedora a go, but dnf is really slow when compared to zypper so I went back to OpenSUSE.
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Probably because it’s written in Python, which is a mind-bogglingly slow language.
You can do things like rewrite individual performance critical methods in C or Rust, but only if there are identifiable performance critical methods.
If it’s just a general slowness across the code, you would pretty much have to rewrite the whole thing in another language to fix that.
You can use a backup app for any distro.
Well, 1) I’m a lazy bastard and setting something like that up sounds like work, and 2) snapshots are still nice by themselves. If I break my OS, I’m back to a working state in five minutes, even if I’m out and about with my laptop.
Timeshift is actually super simple to set up and works nicely, but yes I imagine having snapshots built into the OS must be much more seamless.
Yeah, I literally do nothing for my snapshots until the moment that I need them.
Obviously doing a little work for it isn’t the end of the world, but I like not having to think of it and not being able to fuck up, because I’m literally not involved.
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