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?
ZFS being out of tree is annoying. I miss it when I’m not on FreeBSD.
It works well enough, especially with a stable kernel. Fedora and ZFS can be tricky with kernel upgrades, and I was wondering if Tumbleweed is the same. I figured ZFS and Leap would be similar to CentOS or Debian.
@jollyrogue @ace yeah. A spin of fedora that included ZFS in the kernel and kept it in line with upgrade without having to pin your kernel to avoid it breaking would be awesome.
Currently I’m on 6.4.14 I think and when dnf upgrade removes the ZFS module to install the latest 6.14 kernel I just install it again and it removes the 6.4 devel package installs like 6.2 devel and ZFS and the module still loads even on a 6.4 kernel. Go figure. Lucky I guess.
I’m pretty sure the problem is with the ZFS specfile. The ZFS rpm package should specify which kernels it requires, and dnf should figure things out.
According to the ticket below, a change related to this has been merged, so maybe the problem has been fixed. 🤷🏽♂️
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/12124
@jollyrogue that would be ideal. I think it does. I have to install the 6.2.9 devel package to get ZFS installed on my 6.4.15 kernel which is insane that it actually works.