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We have been using openSuSE Leap on our servers for at least 12 years and are quite happy with it. Compared to CentOS, Ubuntu LTS and Debian it has a yearly rel
by petre 3y ago
We have been using openSuSE Leap on our servers for at least 12 years and are quite happy with it. Compared to CentOS, Ubuntu LTS and Debian it has a yearly release cycle and 18 month support window.
https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime
Upgrades between minor versions are quite easy to do and imply minimal risk. Since 15.3 if ones uses btrfs and something goes wrong the upgrade can also be rolled back. It has both yast (text ui) and zypper (cli) for system configuration and package installs, the config files in /etc are also quite sane, without lots of includes and convoluted hierarchy.
On the desktop we still use Unbutu LTS. I've tried to switch to Debian but had issues, I would have switched to Leap but it wasn't clear if it has Gnome desktop and how polished it is. Thmbleweed has got it, but since we use it for work we don't want our dev environment breaking.
- T-A 3y agohttps://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/gnome-user/single-html/book-gnome-user/index.html https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/gnome-user/singl...
- COGlory 3y agoLeap desktop has both GNOME and KDE. I personally use KDE but my colleagues use GNOME. So far, no real issues.
- raffraffraff 3y agoI'm using Tumbleweed at work. In 8 months of weekly `zypper dup` I've encountered 2 issues, one minor and one major. In both cases I did a smaller rollback and it instantly fixed the issue. Generally if you wait a week and retry, the upgrade works because the but has been fixed.