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by jcreedon 3300 days ago
> Most of the lights are going toward distributions like Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro.. And those shiny new distributions.

OpenSUSE I don't think really compares against any of those distros. SUSE Linux and OpenSUSE really compare better agains RHEL/CentOS. I think the biggest reason that SUSE lags behind most other distros has less to do with other distros being "shiny" and more to do with strong network effects. I tend to use CentOS or Ubuntu LTS simply because I know that googling "centos 7 <problem I'm currently having>" tends to yield a lot more high quality resources than most other distros.
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AceJohnny2 3300 days ago
> "centos 7 <problem I'm currently having>" tends to yield a lot more high quality resources than most other distros.

And yet, most of the time the best resource I find is Arch's wiki ;)

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angry_octet 3300 days ago
The Arch wiki is fantastic. I've not heard an explanation as to why it is so much better than Ubuntu/Redhat. A community of tinkerers? Lack of hegemonic domination from Redhat/Canonical?
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yellowapple 3300 days ago
Probably because it's generic enough to be applicable to the broader Unix ecosystem. I refer to the Arch Wiki all the time even though my Linuxen are almost exclusively either Slackware or openSUSE.

The downside, though, is that some distros have specific tooling for solving a problem, and that tooling is often more appropriate than the information in the Arch Wiki (though the AW still helps if you want to understand what those tools are doing and why).

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thinkMOAR 3300 days ago
Though to be fair, Arch (applies for any extended OS wiki kind of) wiki is so extended because 'they' had a lot of (user) issues.

I used to use arch quite a bit, even had my own spinoff but some fundamental package changes made by the core devs for critical services (network and the switch to systemd) got very annoying and simply too unreliable with update rounds to run any production stuff on it.

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hungerstrike 3300 days ago
Maybe SUSE users don't have as many problems to search for?

Those users might also be utilizing the OS differently than you.

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