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?
Although I agree with most of the things. Saying “they are all the same” is very wrong imo. Very similar sure the same? no. Personally I like Tumblweed more because I love to tinker and break things once in a while. so snapper and btrfs are great in this case. Mint i would use on a set and forget system. Like for my parents.
Saying Arch,OpenSuse,Fedora,Debian and Gentoo are all the same for example is saying that your Toyata Prius is the same as a bugatti chiron. Sure they are both cars and “just look and feel is different” they are not the same at all.
Underneath they are all just Linux. Identical in most cases. The things you’re referring to they make them feel different are userland features, not OS features. Linux is Linux is Linux.
Just like Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 all feel different but underneath they are all identical Windows.