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  • As a former Arch user that has been (and still is) using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for like… 9 months? I would summarize it like this: DON’T SWITCH.

    At first everything will feel pretty good. Latest software like Arch, but with the BTRFS config OOTB, which feels like “wooow, this is really cool”.

    But then… You’ll slowly start seeing the problems.

    Some other comment said zypper was better than pacman. That’s absolutely not true. zypper is way slower, and search works horribly. Even with the new parallelization system, things are definitely worse.

    Also, the paru/yay equivalent experience (non-official packages) is bad, really bad, not only because of how little software actually is there, but also because things are not as well mantained, and stuff like codecs will make you cry.

    And for the stability of Tumbleweed… My system, and several apps have been broken too many times in these months of usage, and stayed broken for weeks without a fix. It’s not like Arch didn’t break on me. But not this frequently, and not without quick fixes.

    Yeah, that snapshots system is not something exclusive to OpenSUSE. Fedora does it too. And it’s not like you can’t configure it in 15 minutes with the Arch wiki.