Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project
atomicStan@programming.dev 10 hours agoIf I may, would you seriously consider switching to openSUSE Slowroll if Manjaro’s situation doesn’t improve? Or, are there reasons beyond its beta status that hold you back?
rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 9 hours ago
I used to hop distributions in my youth, between 2000 and 2019. I have settled on Manjaro and never looked back. As of today, my desktop works perfectly and I have not seen any stability issues.
I am considering testing openSUSE Slowroll in the coming months but not on my main computer. What’s holding me back is that I can’t see any momentum behind Slowroll. I have no clue if the solution will be supported for a long period. I’d like to have more guarantees than what is on openSUSE website.
atomicStan@programming.dev 8 hours ago
Great answer. Thank you!
I hope openSUSE will eventually get around and enjoy some much deserved momentum. I feel it isn’t quite reaching its full potential as a project, because it (somehow) fails to attract a bigger audience. Don’t get me wrong, it’s definitely doing well and it holds its own admirably. But, (going off of ProtonDB’s data) where Fedora (together with its derivatives) managed to effectively increase its market share by at least 400%, openSUSE^[It’s the green colored bar found right under Manjaro] -despite Tumbleweed making more sense for gaming- was only able to keep what it had…
rhubarbe@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 8 hours ago
I don’t think openSUSE markets itself properly. I can’t believe EU_OS picked Fedora instead. That makes 0 sense.
atomicStan@programming.dev 7 hours ago
I (mostly) agree. I believe that
bootcmight have played a role in EU_OS’ decision to pick Fedora over openSUSE. Back then, it wasn’t possible to use it outside of Fedora’s ecosystem. But Bootcrew has since released bootc images for other distros; including openSUSE. So hopefully they will reconsider it.