openSUSE Tumbleweed appreciation

Linux@kbin.social – 0 points – 1 years ago

After distro hopping for ages, a while back I found myself giving Tumbleweed a try and I have been here ever since. Really really liking the experience and don't think I'll be hopping anywhere anytime soon. The game changer for me was the btrfs file system, and using snapper to do a rollback due to a bad update, and everything just working SO SMOOTHLY.

The rolling release model is wonderful, and the zypper updates / package management is a breath of fresh air.

Overall just want to say how much I'm enjoying it here and thanks to the developers and community for making such a great distribution.

Same here. been distro hopping for a long time but OpenSUSE Tumblweed just sticks. Very frequently updated, but quite stable since they do automated QA on packages and do not release updates that break things, also if something would break there is nice integration of BTRFS snappshotting so you can always reboot into a snapshot before the problematic update. Also has one of the best KDE Plasma and apps integrations.

I also recently landed on tumbleweed. Very happy so far.

I tried the microos version. I found I needed too many things that required the force install of packages on top of the system image, then would require a reboot to access. Just seemed like I was wasting my time running around in circles. Tumbleweed is perfect for my home server. Most services are using docker compose.

openSUSE Tumbleweed is great and all, but have you tried openSUSE Aeon/formerly MicroOS Desktop (based on TW)? Don't really wanna go back to traditional Linux Desktops at this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKYLF1tA4Ik

That's their immutable varient isn't it?

I don't use one but I do think that's going to become the best option for new/a large chunk of the userbase moving forward.

I think I am going to end up with an immutable distro myself once they have matured a bit more. I do have Fedora Kinoite (that's the KDE Plasma one) on my laptop to try it out a bit. I could probably daily drive it too, but I don't want to take any chances on my desktop cause I do need it for work too. I'll give them a few more years.
Isn't the MicroOS distro going to replace Leap at some point? I assume it will get a lot more polished then.