30 Days in SUSE and the Linux Tier List

So I recently spent a month in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, here were my thoughts and if I'd change anything in my tier list. .

[leonardorodoni]

For me tumbleweed is the best option when you want a rolling release without having to spend too much time to get an acceptable system. Out of the box with a fresh installation I'm getting disk encryption, btrfs, and snapshot management already configured

[muddyexport]

Pick one, modify to make it yours, get to work and stop hoppping.

[drakemallard]

Putting such a excellent community driven Distro like Fedora in the devil's tier because of Red Hat doesn't make any sense...same with Ubuntu that works very well despite of Cannonicals snap way

[omdevs]

Great take! I have been using Debian on a VM and have loving it so far

[act..]

With more time in Tumbleweed, I think you would find it to be a bit more solid than Arch. I love both of them, but running them side by side for a while, I will pick Tumbleweed.

[spaceghostmiid]

2:25 zorin is awesome if you want something with a super clean interface out of the box. also, zorin lite is amazing for old computers that you still want to look and feel like a newer machine. it's the only good looking distribution i can get running on my celeron powered 2012 asus laptop without half of my ram being consumed on idle. zorin seems a lot more useful if you just treat it like windows without most of the spyware.

[CompuBt]

Garuda linux KDE Lite is a very lightway Arch distro with KDE.

If you choose vanilla Arch you have to configure various things to end in an Arch DE, the partitions, user, bootloader, audio/video drivers, fs, swap, packages, aur helper. And you need to create an script or use archinstall if you don't want to spend 15 min typing commands. And script are not perfect for different hardware is better a guide installation.

Archinatall is good because is a guide installation but you have to do extra steps after installing and is not so tested as a distro maintained.

Arch based distro with vanilla KDE or same with Debian are the way to go, or even consider Fedora. You have a live environment with just the minimal things to start working like a traditional OS.

If you don't like DE and prefer WM, maybe is better custom installation. But you always can install the WM with the DE and select the WM on the login manager.

For me I want stability, simplicity and quick installation without extra configuration.

So distros with Arch/Debian/Fedora + vanilla KDE.

[mimireich]

Those Ubuntu one are spot on as Devil since they won't installed on my dual boot PC
Luckily it was unlike OpenSUSE (previously use this) and Linux Mint (still maining this) ^^

[ytfeelslikenorthkorea]

I revisited suse recently, after arch turned out to be what I thought it would be (let's not go there). When I started with SuSE back in 1998/99 the most attractive part was YaST (especially for someone with a background/addiction to semi-graphical config tools (way too much time spent with Novell :)). Now what is awesome is desktop agnostic approach - YOU choose which desktop to use (if at all). Paired with Hyprland... We are getting somewhere :D

[eekee]

SuSE was a branch of Slackware? Yeah, I think it was, but that is deep history, man! :D It was a mature commercial distro when I bought version 7.2 in 2001. It was the most fun I ever had with Linux, not expecting too much, playing around with everything, finding it significantly easier to understand the init system than Red Hat, and eventually building my own LFS from the included sources and an included mini-HOWTO. Then I got online and no longer had time to do anything properly. ;)

[dianaalyssa]

Always loved how stable Debian is. I've tried everything almost and it's just where I want Stable again.

[secfeed]

I tend to agree with TTT tier list(say that many times really fast), I have tried many distros, I always come back to Debian based. Linux Mint has been the one I always use, from servers, game servers, windows server virtual servers, domains and domain controllers, etc, now considering moving across to LMDE, just been doing some testing and am impressed so far.
I also decided to try out Arch for the first time, got it installed on a second PC, using it daily, am very impressed so far. I was initially freaked out when I did an update and spotted linux kernel getting updated, and immediately thought, yep its now broken... but was pleasantly surprised it booted up again.

So far 4 kernel updates in and still good? hmmm. Oh and it's so fast, like snappy quick, I didn't even know Linux could run that quick. Let's see if Arch will last a year without breaking 🤔

[stevejohnson]

I've been with Ubuntu since 2009, even though there are better choices now. I only had it crash once during an in-place upgrade, and I was able to fix that within four hours. Better than "windows" and I don't have to pay anything unless I want to. My main system is 11 years old and runs fine.

[holakonoob]

hi chris can u share with us your extension list

[adibemaxwell]

Void Linux. It is extremely solid once you've set up everything. Nothing breaks. And if it does, it's usually a very easy fix; roll back a package, or edit a configuration file. Simple. Easy. And quick. Just pay attention to installation/update logs.

[langezeit]

started with linux bc of wii homebrew. There was a linux distro you could boot on it. <3

[avetruetocaesar]

Hey, do you have any opinions on Cachy with its x64-v3 and v4 binary package repos specifically catering to avx2 and avx512 optimisations? Are there any meaningful differences for AMD Zen4 CPUs that'd make Cachy worth picking over, say, Tumbleweed or Nobara for light gaming and day-to-day use? I care most about the battery life and emulation of old games; what would you recommend? I tried Garuda; I hated its desktop, icons and excessive RAM usage; also, my opinions and needs don't align with what Garuda devs envision for their distros.

[jorgerodriguez]

fedora is at the level of debian and arch

[nlhogky]

Distribution selection please help
QUESTION: i am currently using arch and want to learn some Graphic stuffs, blender is not working from pacman and the one from website refuse to use GPU(7800xt) for cycles.Basically it is crashing, freezing and i want to switch to another distro which one should i choose for running program like blender, gimp, krita ?
i thought if i wait arch will have some update that will fix this problem and yes there was updates and now it getting horrible with each update
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[KoopavonRox]

Switched over to Tumbleweed from Windows 11 and I’ve been very happy. Still boot up windows from time to time for certain games but Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma 6 is awesome!