I feel like a lot of the reason people are hesitant to hop into Linux is because of how everything that goes “under the hood” requires a bunch of terminal commands and text file changes.

Ironic, then, that I learned how to Linux the hard way – In distros that expected exactly that from me. I cut my teeth in Arch and its siblings and sure, I can do that.

But it’S SO MUCH FASTER AND EASIER to just click a few buttons and then shit just works. YaST is bliss.

Like. DUDE. I don’t have to edit some files and then clench my asshole for 55 seconds while rebooting when I change a few entries in Grub.

And Zypper actually CHECKS what processes are running and what packages you’re installing, and actually tells you if you do or don’t need a reboot, instead of a blanket “hmmmm we updated, should probably reboot but idfk, that’s your problem now” which is what both apt and pacman gave me.

Quality of Life, it’s really underrated.

I remember them being exactly the dame many years ago

This is one of the reason I like Debian. They don’t change stuff unless there’s a good reason to. Network configuration on my Debian servers is in /etc/network/interfaces in mostly the same format it was in 20 years ago.

Only complaint that I had about OpenSuse was that horribly slow package manager, other than that, It’s a solid choice

ZYPP_SINGLE_RPMTRANS=1 and ZYPP_MEDIANETWORK=1 have made wonders. They are experimental but I’ve had good experience with them, with those zypper is a lot faster

I use openSUSE and rarely find myself using YaST. I feel like it’s just a hassle navigating through all those dated menus. Zypper is not AS bad as people say and if you know what you’re doing you can always use another rpm package manager like dnf. But that is a valid complaint lol.

Overall openSUSE is a fantastic distro though.