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Cameron Martinez
I'm considering a full switch to opensuse exactly because I'm fed up with arch's 100% community management. arch is cool, it has all the software, it just werks, but it's too disorganized.
opensuse seems to be exactly what I was looking for, a rolling release distro with an actual organization behind it. I'm a long time user and I just want a comfy distro to work.
Seriously, does it really bother you? I tried a lot of Linux OSes before retrying Ubuntu and i must say it's the most just werks robust one i used aside from Debian.
Matthew Walker
Name one (1) reason why.
Joseph Martinez
Try Arch, then.
Caleb Jones
Debian and openSUSE At least these are the ones I tried that were full of unnecessary shit.
Liam Peterson
>Most bloated Probably non-minimal Ubuntu or Manjaro >Devuan Debian without systemd. Uses SysV instead. >Void Original distro using runit and it's own package manager (xbps.) Fairly good repos and quick installer >Artix Arch without systemd, with a collection of other inits you can replace it with (OpenRC, runit, s6, Suite66 and dinit.) >AntiX Debian but made to run on quite low spec computers. Great distro to use to make older then average computers come to mostly life again >MX Linux Was once a spin of AntiX but became it's own thing. Still Debian based but has it's own suite of "MX Tools" that can help you do admin tasks.
Mason Morales
Removing packages that are covered by metapackages risks uninstalling the entire system.
Jace Nelson
lmao literally ubuntu
Jose Russell
I haven't used a debian-based distro since 2015 or so. I don't know if that's changed, but the debian family used to have ancient software, even in debian sid, and too much patching over the upstream packages. and also rolling release is a must for me, I'd consider using ubuntu if it was RR, but I'm not waiting 6 months for updates anymore.
>While I don't agree with you about Arch being messy I used it for about 7 years and never had the kind of trouble people associate with it superficially. in all this time, I only had X11 problems once, and it was an actual bug in the mesa package that affected my GPU specifically (RX 5600XT), but it was fixed very quickly. I really like arch.
what made me want to switch was GNU guile. the guile package is in arch's core repo, which I expected to be well maintained, but it's orphaned and in version 2.2. guile 3.0 was released in january 2020 and in 2.5 years apparently no one bothered to update the package. guile3 and guile-git are available in AUR but I shouldn't need AUR for something like this.
James Russell
>but I shouldn't need AUR for something like this Volunteer yourself as its maintainer for the main repo, then.
Adam Walker
You could probably just notify the devs on the BBS or IRC or some such that GNU Guile hasn't been updated in a while. Same thing happened with the glibc package where people found out that it was a bit too out of date so the maintainers were called to action to fix it.
Dominic Torres
Should've just set up Chaotic AUR. Would've been able to get guile from it like a binary package as CAUR autobuilds a vast selection of AUR packages, which guile is probably one of them.
Daniel Cruz
lads how do I share a printer through samba? I tried everything and it always fails I have a directory shared through samba already so it's working at least, but whenever I try adding a printer on a windows client it fails and logs state that I am successfully authenticating but still unable to add a printer archwiki and any other guide out there lists config file the snippet of I have here [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba
does /var/spool/samba need to exist? it's non-existent on my system but no guide or article tells to make it.
