When you run OpenSUSE, you can feel it was made by Germans.
The installer is a beautiful example of German engineering.
The package manager is a perfect example of German over-engineering.
If you run it with KDE, you have 2 redundant GUI admin tools for every config in the system, and 4 for setting up printers.
Yeah that sounds like a typical BMW engine layout.
It's amazing how OpenSUSE got my laptop's valve covers to leak oil.
As the owner of many old German cars this is funny but only because it means no one read the technical manual that came with the car
Except they seemingly come without the right blinker, but BMW drivers only ever need the left one anyways, and it might as well be stuck in "on".
Sees "Germany"
Die Kommentarspalte dieser Pfostierung befindet sich ab sofort im Besitz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland meine Kameraden!
Nein, das ist nicht gut!
Ahoi, Genosse! Wie lΓ€uft die Germanisierung? Verbreiten Sie erfolgreich das Wort von Linux in Ihrem Heimatland?
(Γbersetzung von DeepL)
Ohhh ich spreche auch Wurst. Wie geht es ihnen mein Herr, toetet den fuehrer und benutzt Linux statt Fenster.
Ich bevorzuge:
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Falsches s, 7/10
I mean, sure Arch is flexible. All good footguns can mutilate me in a bunch of different ways.
footgun, Arch, how?
ITT - "I DISAGREE WITH THE FACTUAL ACCURACY OF THE SETUP AND/OR PUNCHLINE OF YOUR JOKE."
What else do you expect from germans? Ich bin stolz auf euch, jungs.
Nixos: everything everywhere all at once
Good for you there wasn't an "ease of use" or "intuitive" field.
I'll never stop hating that debian is labeled stable. I'm fully aware that they are using the definition of stable that simply means not updating constantly but the problem is that people conflate that with stability as in unbreaking. Except it's the exact opposite in my experience, I've had apt absolutely obliterate debian systems way too often. Vs pacman on arxh seems to be exceptionally good at avoiding that. Sure the updated package itself could potentially have a bug or cause a problem but I can't think of any instance where the actual process of updating itself is what eviscerated the system like with apt and dpkg.
And even in the event of an update going catastrophically wrong to the point that the system is inoperable I can simply chroot in use a statically built binary pacman and in a oneliner command reinstall ALL native packages in one go which I've never had not fix a borked system from interrupted update or needing a rollback
You are maybe conflating stability with convenience.
"Why is this stable version of my OS unstable when I update and or install new packages...."
The entire OS falling down randomly on every distribution during normal OS background operations was always an issue or worry, and old Debbie Stables was meant to help make linux feel reliable for production server use, and it has done a decent job at it.
They really should have used the word "static" instead of stable. Stable definitely has connotations of functional stability, and unstable of functional instability.
FWIW I've got a Debian server that hosts most of my sites and primary DNS server, that's been running since Etch (4.0, 2007ish). I've upgraded it over the years, switched from a dedicated server to OpenVZ to KVM, and it's still running today on Bookworm. No major issues with upgrades.
I think I've put fedora on at least 4 personal systems and it has never caused an issue. It's so smooth it's boring in the best way. Switched to it for daily computing about 4 years ago. I use a minipc as a media server with Arch and turning it on it's exciting. Just this fucking morning the default configuration decided that my main audio device was a microphone. Lovely. So flexible.
On the other hand, my server running Arch testing has never had any issues. In fact, the only issue on any of my devices, all Arch testing, was nvidia.
This is a YMMV situation. I had Gentoo running on a minipc for a while and it never had any random issues pop up. Any screw up was fully traceable to configuration and entirely my fault. It was kinda funny. Hope your server stays healthy.
I eventually landed on Fedora too. Its level of "it just works" is amazing.
Right!? Almost everything I need is one dnf command away with minimal setup on my part.
I mean, I'm on Debian and I'm on the same install instance I've had for almost four years now. I'm constantly reading about how some of you people keep hosing your other distros with a normal update...
Don't forget SUSE's focus on SAP... Which is also Germany I guess
Its Germany's version of oracle. A strategic reserve of evil.
Flexibility translates to unpredictable.
Iβve never had any issues with my Arch install being unpredictable. It has always worked exactly as I expected it to, even though I update it every couple of days.
It has always worked exactly as I expected it to
Just expect it to break, then it will behave as expected taps head
I've been using Arch since 2014. If I could be arsed, I could write you a looooooooong list of regressions I've had to deal with over the years. For an experienced Linux user, they're usually fairly easy to deal with, but saying you never have to deal with anything is just a lie.
My experience with Arch is basically: it's all very predictable until it isn't and you suddenly find yourself troubleshooting something random like unexplainable bluetooth disconnects caused by a firmware or kernel update.
Fedora 41 is now the 'wait 45 seconds every boot because you don't have a tpm chip' version.
Can i get some context please? My fedora install wasn't using TPM, i had to manually configure it; i haven't noticed any difference in boot speed with or without TPM encryption
Danke fΓΌr dies handbuch
The four fundamental Ys
From my experience of Fedora: would you like to update today? Debian: You're good bro, no updates today.
5, years, later..
Debian: You're good bro, no updates today.
Somehow, I feel called out.
I would have put OpenBSD in "focus on security". Or hell The only prebuild thing their is pain, pain and suffering
I actually run OpenBSD on one of my ThinkPads, but I was only including Linux distros in this.
BSD isn't linux. Or am I mistaken?
It is not
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