-=> On 07-27-19 13:54, Eric Renfro wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 ER> Heh yeah. It's funny, for me, I hated Red Hat back then. I actually had
 ER> preferred Debian and actually more than that, I preferred SUSE. I think

I never liked SUSE for some reason.  Can't recall why now, but it wasn't my cup
of tea.

 ER> ultimately what I'm going to end up with is either sticking hard on
 ER> Fedora, which I've actually liked since Fedora 18 and up, or with
 ER> Xubuntu, which I hate trying to maintain packages for, and do need to
 ER> for a small few things (SyncTERM for example)... It really depends.
 ER> There's a few things I definitely really must have, and that's
 ER> reasonably up-to-date browsers, reasonably up-to-date video driver
 ER> support, moderate printer support (I currently have a semi-modern HP
 ER> printer which requires a minimum version of hpcups to use it, which was
 ER> not in Ubuntu 16.04), and some specific programs like zssh. Because, I
 ER> like my zmodem over ssh, which I miss with not having konsole from KDE.


Yeah the good thing about Linux is there's a lot of choice. :)

 ER> Now, I'd mentioned SUSE, but not in current days. openSUSE has let me
 ER> down way too much in the later years. With a lot of their dirty little
 ER> hacks, like their "Druid" replacement for virt-manager's
VM "Wizard",
 ER> which they only fairly recently finally removed after all these years.
 ER> Their default setup for open-files limit which breaks any modern
 ER> browser today, and just.... their reliance on btrfs for things like
 ER> snapshots and the ability to roll back changes, stuff that yum and dnf
 ER> had had without filesystem level snapshots for years.

Yeah, I tried SUSE before the OpenSUSE days, but even then I wasn't keen on it.


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