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I started using SuSE in 2002, and it was my go-to distro for personal purposes until 2022. At that time I made the leap To NixOS. It feels now I made the right

by mongol 3y ago

I started using SuSE in 2002, and it was my go-to distro for personal purposes until 2022. At that time I made the leap To NixOS. It feels now I made the right choice. SuSE always felt stable and predictable, but I never really grokked the community and what priorities steered its roadmap. Also it was quite common that software I wanted to use wasn't packaged. As much as I liked it, it was right to part ways. If it wasn't for NixOS, I am very unsure what I would do now.

crabbone 3y ago
My understanding is that SuSE is the Fedora of SLES, and SLES is what Dell tries to put on some of its storage appliances. This is a kind of appliance that doesn't go to individual consumers though, so, you might have never encountered it. This may also explain the biggest discrepancy from RHEL being in how SLES packages storage-related stuff (eg. SLES is pro-Btrfs, while RHEL is against, SLES is slow to upgrade mdcrypt, while RHEL isn't etc.) But this is just a guess.