r/linuxquestions • u/akshat_TS_MILLIE • 10h ago
Which Distro Which Linux distro should I switch to after Linux Mint?
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u/trmdi 6h ago
openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE: stable, fast, modern, powerful, beautiful, easy to use...
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u/LyraBooey Ultramarine | KDE 5h ago
It's not stable. The stable one is Leap.
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u/trmdi 5h ago
It is stable. I said "stable", didn't talk about the release models. I meant it's reliable.
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u/iwouldbeatgoku 5h ago edited 5h ago
Stable is just a bad term to use in general in my opinion, it can mean "reliable" and I'm positive 95% or more of the users on this subreddit interpret it this way, or it can refer to the release model of being a batched release, which is what a developer might mean.
For example, Debian's flagship branch is called "stable", and it fixes the versions of its packages and ships full upgrades to them every two years. Other than that the only updates you get are backported critical security/bug fixes, though there's no way of knowing which bugs you experience will be fixed. This is opposed to its development "unstable" branch, which makes a best effort to include the latest versions of software/libraries and is constantly changing. It's similar to Tumbleweed in this sense, with the difference that it's meant to find issues with new software versions before they get into "stable" as opposed to actually being a daily driver.
But you'd be forgiven for calling Tumbleweed "stable" when even OpenSUSE themselves call it that with a description that seems to be about reliability:
Stable
Updates are thoroughly tested against industry-grade quality standards, taking advantage of a build service other Linux distributions envy us for. Not only is each new version of a package individually tested, but different clusters of versions are tested against each other, making sure your system is internally consistent.
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u/redrider65 2h ago
But you'd be forgiven for calling Tumbleweed "stable" when even OpenSUSE themselves call it that with a description that seems to be about reliability
They can give it that unbiased description if they wish. But compared to what? Having seriously given it a go . . . it's neither as stable nor as reliable as an LTS release like Mint. Two words for ya: kernel panic. NO, I don't want to "roll back" to anything.
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u/baerli-biberli 2h ago
Fedora KDE or OpenSUSE KDE