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?

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    OpenSUSE (Tumbleweed) is kinda like user friendly, corporate backed Arch but you will notice that software support is much worse. Can’t keep up with the AUR. Arch is easily one of the, if not the, best supported distros, rivaling Debian, Fedora and derivatives.

    So it kinda depends on what you want to do, because you might lack some software on SUSE. Also distro hopping is fine, if you stop :D