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?
Don’t. That is to distro hop.
Yes, I am a long time openSUSE user (heck, I am a SUSE employee!), but the difference between various distros is truly minimal. Yes, openSUSE has Yast, but aside from that it is really very similar to any other distribution. Instead of spending time on distro hoping, just sit on your behind and learn to resolve your issues with your current distribution.
I feel almost obliged to ask: there are lot of packages in Tumbleweed that are not available in Leap. Will packages from Tumbleweed be added to Leap with the next release? I want to use a static release distro and I’m currently on NixOS. The only distros that have all the packages I need are Arch, NixOS and Tumbleweed.
Keep in mind that just because they said they’re a SuSE employee there’s a good chance they have nothing to do with OpenSuSE. SuSE the company has a much broader stroke.
Yes, I know, but one can hope.