• blackris
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    6 months ago

    Ah, OpenSuse. The distro with the package management that spams your drive full of unnecessary optional dependencies.

    Would always recommend EndeavourOS.

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      6 months ago

      Sadly true. When I installed texlive-base it tried to install like 300 recommended packages, I almost accepted D:

      I’d still recommend it, I don’t know if you can change the default for recommended packages because aside from that, I actually love it.

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        6 months ago

        Yesss! My first five minutes with OpenSuse.

        I mean, you can change that behaviour somehow. But there are so many other small things like the constant vendor changes. Zypper is just so quirky. It’s a cool distro and to have a rolling release option like tumbleweed is always a big plus in my opinion, but I just wouldn’t recommend it to people who are not really eager to play around with their distro.

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          What I find weird about Tumbleweed is, that updating is not integrated into YaST or another UI. You have to use the commandline to keep your system up to date. That makes it exactly as inconvenient as Arch for newcomers, but Arch has a whole philosophy behind this while SuSE is typically very GUI oriented. It’s weird.

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            With KDE Plasma it lets me update from its store, even though it’s kind of annoying because I like to do it from the CLI and it blocks Zypper when checking for available updates.

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      6 months ago

      Tried it once and literally could not get nvidia drivers to install. Went straight back to endeavouros and continued to enjoy