I have been using Mint for about six months now and while I am not going to start distro hopping, I slowly want to start exploring the rest of Linux.

Originally I was looking at Arch based distros such as Manjaro and EndeavourOS, during which I found out Manjaro is somewhat pointless because you pretty much should not use the AUR on Manjaro or else you will break the system inevitably. EndeavourOS looked solid though.

However, I got a few suggestions regarding OpenSuSE Tumbleweed as a better alternative to Arch based distros and just wanted to know what are the pros and cons of OpenSuSE compared to Arch based distros from your experience?

  • aleph@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Well, the two aren’t all that different. openSUSE has an better installer, which offers even full disk encryption, automated partitioning for disks in BTRFS with backups enabled.

    If you want the above with Arch, the EndeavourOS installer also offers these features.

    One big plus I can see in openSUSE’s favour is YaST, the graphical utility for system configuration, and allows you to configure nearly everything in a GUI.

    It’s not widely known, but EndeavourOS also has a GUI manager for btrfs snapshots, btrfs-assistant, that offers equivalent functionality to 'Suse.

    It doesn’t come pre-installed, but it’s pretty easy to setup.