[kwlug-disc] From Slackware to which distro?

[Jason Eckert]

I enjoyed reading this whole thread and hearing other's experiences with
distros.
That being said, I'll be the first to recommend trying out Arch.
I've started using it a few months ago, and it has since become my
favourite distro - the Arch User Repository (AUR) and PKGBUILDs are
excellent, and everything is incredibly well documented by the community.
Plus, you get to use the catchphrase "I use Arch BTW."
Worth a try in my opinion...

On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 5:23 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I can't speak to openSUSE, but I have been forced to sysadmin a few SUSE15
> boxes at work.  Will.not.shop.there.again....  Oh, I just can't stand the
> way SUSE changes things here and there.  Even my Ansible playbooks that set
> up users and change passwords fail because SUSE is just *that* much not
> standard..  I want to throw the POSIX rule book at them sometime.
> Thankfully, I don't have to work on these systems often.  They're like the
> Windows Millennium of the Linux world...
>
> Mind you, this is just my own opinion.  I'm sure people who know SUSE
> better than I do could rightfully disagree...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 3:43 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
> kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
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