[kwlug-disc] From Slackware to which distro?

[CrankyOldBugger]

I can't speak to openSUSE, but I have been forced to sysadmin a few SUSE15
boxes at work.  Will.not.shop.there.again....  Oh, I just can't stand the
way SUSE changes things here and there.  Even my Ansible playbooks that set
up users and change passwords fail because SUSE is just *that* much not
standard..  I want to throw the POSIX rule book at them sometime.
Thankfully, I don't have to work on these systems often.  They're like the
Windows Millennium of the Linux world...

Mind you, this is just my own opinion.  I'm sure people who know SUSE
better than I do could rightfully disagree...



On Wed, Jun 1, 2022 at 3:43 PM William Park via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 2022-06-01 04:46, Doug Moen wrote:
> > On Tue, May 31, 2022, at 4:12 PM, Raul Suarez via kwlug-disc wrote:
> >> OpenSUSE.
>
> > I think I agree that OpenSUSE is more "auto transmission" than Fedora,
> based on internet research and using Fedora, but I haven't installed
> OpenSUSE yet. I've been distro hopping: I'm abandoning Fedora, and I will
> try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed + KDE next.
>
> Probably easier to try Fedora/KDE first.  If that doesn't work out, then
> OpenSUSE/KDE.
>
>
> > I want to point out that I have some very specific requirements that
> other people may not share. The system level features I want include:
> >   * A high level UI for snapshot and restore of the root partition, so I
> can recover from disaster after a system update or package install goes
> badly. Like my problematic install of MATE on Fedora. This is built in to
> Mint and OpenSUSE, but not Fedora or Manjaro.
> >   * ZFS support (for an external array, not ZFS on root). Mint has this
> in the default install. OpenSUSE has a package that is not in the default
> repos, but the OpenZFS project endorses the package, and people on the
> internet report using it without issue. Fedora has a package that the
> OpenZFS project says "should not be used under any circumstance". Note that
> ZFS is for my server machine, not my laptop, and I won't use a rolling
> release distro on my server for stability/reliability reasons. I could use
> Mint or OpenSUSE Leap.
>
> By default, now, Fedora-36 makes a btrfs partition, subvolume "root" and
> "home", and mounts those as / and /home.  So, you can do snapshot
> manually, if Fedora doesn't do it for you.
>
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