![]() With eselect, you also can have multiple versions of one same package installed in your system, like python, php, ruby, gcc, jdk, kernel, etc. For many packages, you can choose your favorite alternative over another, like ffmpeg and libav, openssl and libressl, etc. With the powerful portage system, one can easily turn an external package (technically, anyone) into a portage-managed package, which makes every package under your control. Even it is pretty easy to integrate your own patches for a specific package, or a specific version of package, without changing the ebuild. The ebuid is developer-friendly, easy to make changes to adapt it for you own special requirement. With the USE flag, you get the most fine-grained control over packages you could ever have. It also optimizes the binary executables for your own machine. The compiling is especially good for users who wants to build the system from sources. Like LFS, you know, you can customize everything, add/remove anything you like/hate, from kernel to applications. See MoreĬkyslant's Experience Gentoo is meant for experienced users and developers, rather than beginners (a beginner, however, will grow tremendously from suffering). For distribution specific issues - Tumbleweed is impressively stable - haven't had anything worth mentioning in ages. For package specific problems (which is most of the time), solutions for another distribution can easily be applied to openSuse. I imagine the only reason a new user would complain is the apparently better documentation for other distributions. I particularly like zypper for package management and, even when I don't use it much anymore, I am amused that Yast continues to provide a TCL interface so that one needs not start a X server for a little configuration. At the opposite spectrum, my kids have taken over some of my older laptops, in preference over their school issued chromebooks. ![]() Anecdotally, it passed the grandparents test: my in-laws have been using it happily for a few years, and neither are technically savvy. I prefer to change their default partitioning on a new installation, but that's an easy change. Easy to install, clean package selection. RealisticNemesis's Experience I've been using openSuse Tumbleweed for many years on a couple of dozen machines at a time, and it never disappointed.
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