Introduction#
Well, here we are. A year after installing OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (actually, 14 months already) and we are still running it without much complaints, if any. Solid, fast, what more is there to ask for?
Things I have noticed#
Over this time period I have noticed some Things.
Pro:
- Always the latest software
- It does not fail, despite being a rolling release distribution
- Easy to configure and customize (‘ricing’)
- YaST let’s you configure certaint things quicker and more reliable than you could on the commandline (iSCSI, NFS mounts)
Neg:
- Sometimes (rarely) an update breaks something
- Codecs are not in the main repos due to licensing and Packman repos are sometimes out of sync, forcing you to wait for specific updates
- Typically this is not more than a few days, sometimes up to a week
- Migration from nvidia to AMD could have been smoother, but not really something Tumbleweed is at fault for.
- By default qgroups are enabled on BTRFS, which is good for snapshot management but can cause some performance issues.
Summing up#
Overall, very happy still. I wouldn’t know what distribution to run that would make me more content running Liux on a day to day basis, really. It’s a solid performer and with a nice balances of running the latest and greatest without too much risk of annoyances due to the proper testing that is done by OBS. I do look forward to trying out the new Cosmic desktop from System76 when it is released and made available, but I doubt I would be leaving my trusty and loved KDE behind.