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On 11 Jun 2015, at 19:59, bad apple <mr.meowski@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/06/15 09:51, Eion MacDonald wrote: >> Thanks. I use two OpenSUSE versions one 32 bit, one 64 bit. I will have >> a look at Ubuntu. > > Don't bother, it's increasingly terrible these days. > > Especially if you're coming from the RPM ecosystem of SUSE anyway, > Fedora might be a better choice (yum and now dnf are much, much nicer > than zypper). Overall Fedora probably isn't different enough from SUSE > to be worth you investing time in investigating the switch - Arch or > even something like Void however might well be. > > The first free day I get is going to be dedicated to wiping Ubuntu, > which has been my usual main OS on/off - mostly on - since Dapper from > my workstation and switching to any Linux distro that sucks less. So > basically, anything. And that's even though a lot of my custom build > stuff, scripting and personal tweaking is all extensively geared around > the Ubuntu platform and will need plenty of work to move across: it will > be totally worth it. > > I'd love to stick with an apt-based Linux if possible, but Debian is now > also systemd-laden and the packages are hopelessly out-of-date unless > you run Sid, which I have done many times before and really liked until > it inevitably broke catastrophically. Not a fit for my main workstation > sadly. > > Realistically, I think it'll probably be Arch replacing it when push > comes to shove. they just don't make them like they used too. #slackware #crux > > Cheers > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq