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OpenSUSE is hardly what I would consider noob friendly, but it certainly beats remaining under Microsoft’s oppressing thumb.

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Leap is surely noob-friendly.

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how do they do regular updates? how do they do major version upgrades?

I think both of these is a big pain point.

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They’re fine for a stable release I think. Nvidia is on 550 for example. For Major updates, ping me next year since I’ll try it then, when new Leap arrived.

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8 points

I mean YaST is kind of snazzy, though not enough to pull me from Debian for the moment.

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Yeah, I’m basically married to Fedora at this point.

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I use it at home just because I wanted to try something different on my laptop, I really don’t understand what some people love about it so much. It’s bot terrible or anything, I just find it a bit clunky and there’s nothing remarkably good.

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The big thing it has going for it is that they set up btrfs snapshots out of the box so you can rollback if necessary.

They also do more automated testing than Arch so theoretically it should be more stable.

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opensuse was my shortest experiment when i used to distro hop because of how old their software seemed to be. (ie old like debian stable).

this was almost 20 years; has it gotten better?

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My first experiment with openSUSE was also not ended well back then but nowadays it’s in my top 3 list when I’m suggesting distros to people.

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… nowadays it’s in my top 3 list when I’m suggesting distros to people

same here; but only because of the support like red hat’s and canonical’s

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