vettnerkwhich linux distro do you NOT like, and why?
I don’t like Ubuntu because of Snaps and because I never successfully upgraded from one release to the next without having to reinstall.
I don’t like Mint because it’s just Ubuntu with even more stuff added.
I don’t like OpenSuse because when you install and administer it, you can feel it was made by Germans.
I don’t like Manjaro because it’s unstable by design due to the dev’s lazyness.
I don’t like Slackware because it installs 12 different programs for the same purpose but not the ones everyone wants, only comes with KDE and throws rocks at you when you try to make it do something it wasn’t designed for by its Benevolent Dictator Who Knows Best (like boot from UEFI).
I generally don’t like distros that are just another distro with a different default package selection and some themes and GUI admin tools tacked on.
Everything made sense but OpenSuse, what up with German made stuff?
Some people don’t like things that are well made and organized in a sensible manner?
Was going to comment similar. it has all thinks thought about and tweaked so it runa great and functions like it should. Maybe they didn’t enjoy system rollbacks and GUI admin?
Correct, I don’t enjoy GUI admin.
RogerWilcoLike sudo requiring you to use the root password?
Isn’t one of the principal reasons sudo exists is so you DONT need to know or use the root password to perform root-level tasks?
It’s an idiotic choice on OpenSUSE’s part IMO.
MrPoopyButtholeYou can modify the settings to get passwordless sudo.
Of course you can. My point is, it’s a ridiculous decision on OpenSUSE’s part to ship it this way in the first place.
As far as I remember, sudo ask for the user password, not the root one.
It is “su -c [some_command]” that ask for the root password.
maybe it has fax support by default
cygnusIt’s made by Germans, not lawyers.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great system, but it’s overengineered like a German car.
What bugs me the most is that many of the YaST tools duplicate KDE’s own so you have several GUI tools installed that roughly change the same settings.
What bugs me the most is that many of the YaST tools duplicate KDE’s own so you have several GUI tools installed that roughly change the same settings.
What do you like?
UntouchedWagonsIf I had to guess either Debian or TempleOS.
Debian, Arch, Fedora
what do you use?
Arch and Debian.
If Arch had a stable release model like Debian and a GUI installer that drops you into a GNOME shell desktop with no other software installed, that would be my perfect system.
If Arch had a stable release model like Debian and a GUI installer that drops you into a GNOME shell desktop with no other software installed, that would be my perfect system.
ken27238Or so the Germans would have us believe.
RIP norm Macdonald.
I don’t like OpenSuse because when you install and administer it, you can feel it was made by Germans.
What does that mean?
It’s overengineered.
Ok, could you give an example? I never used OpenSUSE, just curious.
Yast. I love zypper and opi but yast is super weird. Like if you want to do things that you can do with yast, you probably know how to do it on terminal.
It uses KDE, which comes with a boatload of graphical tools to manage your system settings.
Then it adds YaST, which is another boatload of graphical tools to manage basically everything.
It’s probably the one distro I’d recommend to someone who never wants to touch the command line, because for everything you might want to do with your OS they built a graphical tool.
Package management also offers a lot of options, like automatically updating a package from multiple repos while checking in the background which version is the most recent that doesn’t break your system.
Or “switching” a package to a different repo without reinstalling it. You can install user-provided packages (similar to Arch’s AUR) from the GUI. It discerns between Updates and Patches. And so on.
So in my opinion, Arch is like a Ford Model T and OpenSUSE is like the newest model Benz with ALL OF THE OPTIONS.
Then it adds YaST, which is another boatload of graphical tools to manage basically everything.
It’s probably the one distro I’d recommend to someone who never wants to touch the command line, because for everything you might want to do with your OS they built a graphical tool.
Package management also offers a lot of options, like automatically updating a package from multiple repos while checking in the background which version is the most recent that doesn’t break your system.
Or “switching” a package to a different repo without reinstalling it. You can install user-provided packages (similar to Arch’s AUR) from the GUI. It discerns between Updates and Patches. And so on.
So in my opinion, Arch is like a Ford Model T and OpenSUSE is like the newest model Benz with ALL OF THE OPTIONS.
I don’t like Mint because it’s just Ubuntu with even more stuff added.
Mint removes snaps and card games and replaces some GNOME utility apps like image viewer, video player, store etc. with its own apps. Mint also comes with additional apps like Hypnotix, Transmission, Hexchat, Timeshift but worst case they need additional disk space. Like 500 MiB maximum in a 10+ GiB install. I wouldn’t consider these apps “bloat”.