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I use tumbleweed. It's like Arch but without the blood. I need a bleeding edge distro that's preconfigured for sanity out of the box and just works. If you do t

I use tumbleweed. It's like Arch but without the blood. I need a bleeding edge distro that's preconfigured for sanity out of the box and just works. If you do too give it a go.

__loam 2y ago
I've also used Tumbleweed after I had some problems with Arch. It's a very good distro but I ultimately switched to kubuntu she xubuntu because it was easier to install software.
- Rinzler89 2y ago
  What do you mean by "it was easier"? I open Discover in KDE Tumbleweed, search for the SW I'm looking for, click Install, and then type my admin password to confirm. Don't even need to open the command line. What did you find difficult in that?
  - __loam 2y ago
    What I mean is that, when trying to find software for Linux, nearly everyone has an option available for Ubuntu and apt. The same isn't true for Tumbleweed unfortunately. You can fuck around with Fedora rpms when SUSE doesn't have an option but I had some issues with some software I use regularly. I still think Tumbleweed is an excellent distribution, I just find that installing the software I need is most frictionless on Ubuntu distributions.
    - Rinzler89 2y ago
      Which software you didn't find on tumbleweed? Packages that aren't native to Tumbleweed are available in Discover as Flatpacks. You're probably trying to look for software "the Windows way" of downloading the sw from a website in which case you mostly see .debs and .rpms but that doesn't mean it's not available in the tumbleweed repos or Flatpacks if you search Discover. Niche stuff not available in the official repos or Flatpacks can be found in the OPI(similar to Arch AUR) where the proprietary codecs also are.
      - __loam 2y ago
        I think about this less by using kubuntu.
        Rinzler89 2y ago
        Can you stop dodging the question and changing the topic? You still haven't mentioned what software you haven't found on Tumbleweed but exists on Kubuntu.
raffraffraff 2y ago
Same. I got annoyed with Canonical's user-unfriendly changed, tried Debian and found that packages were out of date. Tried Tumbleweed and never looked back. Actually it was their KDE Plasma that won me over, but the rolling release and built in snapshot features have been amazing.
rlonstein 2y ago
Similar. Long time Leap user on a laptop moved to Tumbleweed and it's been good.

I use tumbleweed. It's like Arch but without the blood. I need a bleeding edge distro that's preconfigured for sanity out of the box and just works. If you do too give it a go.

__loam 2y ago

I've also used Tumbleweed after I had some problems with Arch. It's a very good distro but I ultimately switched to kubuntu she xubuntu because it was easier to install software.

Rinzler89 2y ago
What do you mean by "it was easier"? I open Discover in KDE Tumbleweed, search for the SW I'm looking for, click Install, and then type my admin password to confirm. Don't even need to open the command line. What did you find difficult in that?
- __loam 2y ago
  What I mean is that, when trying to find software for Linux, nearly everyone has an option available for Ubuntu and apt. The same isn't true for Tumbleweed unfortunately. You can fuck around with Fedora rpms when SUSE doesn't have an option but I had some issues with some software I use regularly. I still think Tumbleweed is an excellent distribution, I just find that installing the software I need is most frictionless on Ubuntu distributions.
  - Rinzler89 2y ago
    Which software you didn't find on tumbleweed? Packages that aren't native to Tumbleweed are available in Discover as Flatpacks. You're probably trying to look for software "the Windows way" of downloading the sw from a website in which case you mostly see .debs and .rpms but that doesn't mean it's not available in the tumbleweed repos or Flatpacks if you search Discover. Niche stuff not available in the official repos or Flatpacks can be found in the OPI(similar to Arch AUR) where the proprietary codecs also are.
    - __loam 2y ago
      I think about this less by using kubuntu.
      - Rinzler89 2y ago
        Can you stop dodging the question and changing the topic? You still haven't mentioned what software you haven't found on Tumbleweed but exists on Kubuntu.

raffraffraff 2y ago

Same. I got annoyed with Canonical's user-unfriendly changed, tried Debian and found that packages were out of date. Tried Tumbleweed and never looked back. Actually it was their KDE Plasma that won me over, but the rolling release and built in snapshot features have been amazing.

rlonstein 2y ago

Similar. Long time Leap user on a laptop moved to Tumbleweed and it's been good.