1d ago

"You need to try Linux"

Originally this was a reply to this article about a Windows feature called Recall, but there's a good argument the author's concerns resonate far beyond Windows and Meta to proprietary generally.

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I switched from Fedora to openSUSE recently and it has been painless. Would recommend to anyone who are looking to get away from US companies and US jurisdiction. Edit: note that it uses RPM package manager though, I don't know yet if that is problematic or not. If someone knows then please elaborate on that.
- Tumbleweed or Leap or something else?
  
  Most likely Tumbleweed. As it is the most modern of them. Because it is rolling.
  
  Correct, Tumbleweed is the one I started using.
  
  As a long time debian user, I have my eyes on Leap. I value stability (in the unchanging functionality sense) over latest versions.
  
  For me Tumbleweed is rock solid even though it is rolling. But if you don't like subtle changes it might not be fore you.
  
  No matter which OpenSuse people end up choosing, it's a super solid decision. Even though it relies on infrastructure by SUSE S.A., a company that unfortunately has ties to the US (mostly hosting with offices and employees in the US) but got its HQ in Europe, it's the most solid and user-friendly distro out there if you look for rather independent distros (the only user-friendly one that's fully independent would be Mageia, but that one really isn't where it would have to be imho). And the existence of bootable snapshots in case something happened is extremely useful. The biggest problems I've found are just 2: Problems with the Nvidia driver (especially if you use said snapshots), and Flathub not coming preconfigured (not a Problem in KDE since there's a button new users can stumble over, but for Gnome you have to know something rather important is missing to look up the command to add it since there isn't a GUI to add Flatpak repos yet).
  Other than that the whole OpenSuse ecosystem is just great.
  
  I don't mind changes, but I want to be able to decide when they happen. Maybe I'm just traumatized from the last time I used a rolling release distro and suddenly Gnome 3 landed and replaced Gnome 2. I did not like that.

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