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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Distro Recommendations From Manjaro (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sebo@lemmy.one to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello, I've been using manjaro xfce for a few months now and I'm starting to wonder if I would enjoy any other distros more, I'm not really a technical person but I really do enjoy linux so i'm willing to learn new things.

I'm looking for a distro that is minimal while not being too complex, (Manjaro keeps breaking itself for a laugth)

Please leave distro recommendations in the comments below I will be sure to play with them in live boot or in a Vm.

Thank you and have a good day, Sebo

#Update: I tryed openSUSE Tumbleweed, EndevourOS and Arch and so far I'm enjoying arch the most (I installed it with help of the wiki and a youtube guide)

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

openSUSE Tumbleweed

It's rolling like Arch/Manjaro/EndeavorOS, but it feels a lot more professionally maintained (SUSE employees work on it off hours AFAIK). It's an RPM distro like Fedora, so you may have luck with RPMs you find in the wild.

It has a user repository like Arch, but instead of building locally, packages are built on their servers against their base, so things tend to just work. I've had issues with packages not compiling from the AUR because the author didn't list all dependencies (easy mistake), but I haven't had that issue on openSUSE.

openSUSE also configures snapper, which does BTRFS snapshots, meaning if an upgrade goes bad, you can just roll it back and try again on a different day. On Arch/Manjaro, if you don't have snapshots configured, you have to manually rollback packages, which can be a pain (I used to keep a known good NVIDIA driver around just in case).