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by la_oveja 499 days ago
what about opensuse? Is it really the european fedora? is it worth the title of "sysadmins favourite distro"?
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No it's really not. I've had enough problems with badly-maintained/broken packages that I've switched to Archlinux (btw). Just go with Debian Sid or Arch.
openSUSE is a great all-around distro, not only for sys-admins. It comes in two main flavors: Leap (stable) and Tumbleweed (rolling), and several others. The main difference between Tumbleweed and other rolling with other distros is the quality control before releases. This is done almost daily. If for some reason the quality check does not pass, the release is hold until it is solved.
Been using opensuse for both my personal laptop and a server for many years now.

Still don't understand why it's not more popular.