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I liked Suse before Novell acquired it. Is it still good?

• Arnavion 4y ago
  Yes. I've been using it for over a decade and it's still great. Like Fedora it's leading the charge in modernization (btrfs, /usr/etc, snapper, Yast, etc) and like Arch it has a big set of up-to-date packages, except they're in the main repo instead of an untrusted AUR.
  • nyanpasu64 4y ago
    You need third party repositories if you want full ffmpeg with h.264 support, and since these are binary (IIRC) repos, each third-party package is often either compatible with the latest or older snapshot, or tumbleweed, but often not both (unlike Arch's AUR which only has one distro to target, though it's a moving target).
    • Arnavion 4y ago
      >You need third party repositories if you want full ffmpeg with h.264 support Repository. Singular. Packman. >each third-party package is often either compatible with the latest or older snapshot, or tumbleweed, but often not both The conversation was about TW. There is a packman repo for TW.
      • nyanpasu64 4y ago
        The conversation was about getting packages "in the main repo instead of an untrusted AUR". I used Tumbleweed a few years ago. To get a package selection as rich as the full AUR (which is very broad but not 100% comprehensive for niche packages), I had to use multiple package repos besides Packman, and many packages I wanted didn't ship Tumbleweed builds (reminding me of my experiences with Ubuntu's PPAs).
• tyingq 4y ago
  Fwiw, Suse is a public company again and Novell is split up into various different places like NetIq (eDirectory) then Microfocus for most of the "dead-ish" products like Groupwise and File/Print services.