Today I said goodbye to Debian and hello to opensuse tumbleweeb on my workstation at work.

Why?

@Divisionbyzero
I broke it, and I had some time over so whatever :)

I second this ‘why’. Not in a condescending way, but just in a ‘I haven’t used anything suse related in over a decade and would just like to know your reasons for saying goodbye to deb’ kind of way ;P I use Debian on any server whenever it’s my choice, and I’m happy and loyal... but I’d love hear convincing argument to try a new distribution haha. Maybe that previous comment holds the answer; I like Debian... for servers. Is it just too much of a hassle to deal with on the workstation? I personally like Arch for my workstations... something like Ubuntu if I’m setting up a box for someone less initiated to Linux tho, ha. Arch has pleasantly surprised me... I had always imagined it being a high-maintenance distro like gentoo for example, but I found the opposite to be true; as long as I keep everything updated I never have issues. Only box I’ve had a problem on was my HTPC where I forgot to update for 6 months, and even that wasn’t too insane to recover from, haha

@agaskins
I use Debian for servers too and I am going to continue doing that. :)
I started with SUSE when I was 9 back in 2001 and it was nice returning today and see how much it has evolved. The installation was nice (it actually imported my ssh keys from me previous installation!)

openSUSE is just clean, and I have had no issues so far ( the first 8 hours lol )

Sorry for the rant comment... but I would like to hear the pros and cons of the new distro! :)

@agaskins
You dont have to apologize lol, I dont even know why you did that ^^

@agaskins
Hopefully I will do a short review soon!

Didn’t see you had already replied, haha. Cool man! How is there package management these days? Is it still yum? Iirc... like I said, well over a decade haha. Why I hate Debian on workstations is why I love it on servers... the great work they do keeping packages maintained with security patches and such... but it also results in a lot of packages that make a workstation desktop usable being super outdated! Is suse better in this regard? Do they have a rolling release option like Arch, or is it already pretty current? Oddly enough I find that I get better results with various packages working together and almost no dependency hell with Arch more so than a distro like Ubuntu that touts that sort of thing as a perk, haha. Nice to find another Debian server brother here! Haha

@agaskins
I can answer some of the questions;

Package manager - zypper
Rolling release - they have, tumbleweed

@agaskins The Tumbleweed variant of openSuse is rolling release, it's running with the newest kernel and all the other nice stuff. Updates are usually released every day.

I have it on my laptop since last July and it still runs like on the first day.

openSuse became my "default" distro over the recent years.
Although when I reinstall the OS I'll probably try out Antergos for a bit.

@deadlyRants @Linux cool, I’ll have to give it a go soon! I can def see why you changed now, Linux, a rolling release is great on a workstation! Happy trails!