[kwlug-disc] From Slackware to which distro?

[William Park]

On 2022-06-01 04:46, Doug Moen wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2022, at 4:12 PM, Raul Suarez via kwlug-disc wrote:
>> OpenSUSE.

> I think I agree that OpenSUSE is more "auto transmission" than Fedora, based on internet research and using Fedora, but I haven't installed OpenSUSE yet. I've been distro hopping: I'm abandoning Fedora, and I will try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed + KDE next.

Probably easier to try Fedora/KDE first.  If that doesn't work out, then 
OpenSUSE/KDE.


> I want to point out that I have some very specific requirements that other people may not share. The system level features I want include:
>   * A high level UI for snapshot and restore of the root partition, so I can recover from disaster after a system update or package install goes badly. Like my problematic install of MATE on Fedora. This is built in to Mint and OpenSUSE, but not Fedora or Manjaro.
>   * ZFS support (for an external array, not ZFS on root). Mint has this in the default install. OpenSUSE has a package that is not in the default repos, but the OpenZFS project endorses the package, and people on the internet report using it without issue. Fedora has a package that the OpenZFS project says "should not be used under any circumstance". Note that ZFS is for my server machine, not my laptop, and I won't use a rolling release distro on my server for stability/reliability reasons. I could use Mint or OpenSUSE Leap.

By default, now, Fedora-36 makes a btrfs partition, subvolume "root" and 
"home", and mounts those as / and /home.  So, you can do snapshot 
manually, if Fedora doesn't do it for you.