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    [openSUSE] There is no such thing as "too many" packages #installThemAll (reddthat.com)
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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    That depends on what your expectations are. If you tell me I can try to answer your question :)

    [–] SevereLow 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    What I expect it to do is to run great out of the box and to be reliable enough. I don't mind some post-install configuration, but for me "tweaking" usually ends on the day of the installation and down the road I simply want to do my daily tasks on the PC without even thinking about the system. What I need is Firefox, LibreOffice, Onlyoffice, Thunderbird, plus running a VirtualBox with Windows 10 there. Playing Steam games is also something I would like, but it's not mandatory for me. When I have time, I usually play some classic titles, that probably don't require latest versions of VGA drivers.

    Basically I need something stable and predictable, with optimal font rendering since my work is tied to texts. I'm stressing on this, because back in 2018 when I first tried openSUSE Leap, it had the worst font rendering of Cyrillic fonts across different OS-es (both Linux ones and non-Linux ones) that I have seen in my entire life. Probably it's already fixed, since five years have passed from then... but yeah, back then openSUSE was a real pain for the eyes. The OS I picked up was Linux Mint and I am still using it. For my next install though I want to try something new. I decided to try KDE... never used it before, but hearing a lot of good words about it. I decided to switch away from the Ubuntu base too, so that I add some learning curve to the whole experiment. And after some research, I figured out that I might probably make a choice between Debian and openSUSE.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    If you need stability, I definetly recommend you going with Debian. I used it for two years as my daily driver and it worked 100% of the time without any issues. I never gamed on it though, so I cant tell you anything about that. Yast would be the strongest argument for openSUSE as well as 1-click full disk encryption with encrypted boot and secure boot from the installer. I hope this can help you with your decision, have a nice day :)

    [–] SevereLow 2 points 1 year ago

    Thank you very much for your reply ❤️