New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option
New to Linux? Ubuntu Isn’t Your Only Option
Find a Linux distro that meets your needs and requirements—that isn't Ubuntu.
Ubuntu's popularity often makes it the default choice for new Linux users. But there are tons of other Linux operating systems that deserve your attention. As such, I've highlighted some Ubuntu alternatives so you can choose based on your needs and requirements—because conformity is boring.
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No one ever recommends OpenSuse....
I am kind of afraid of the corporate influence on OpenSUSE. Same for the relationship between Ubuntu and Canonical
It also makes it more resilient in the face of hard times. Point to be noted
Is any popular stable distro free from corporate influence aside from Debian?
Not that I'm aware of. Debian is really an outlier, it's strong community and motivation for software freedom is what makes Debian, Debian.
Correct.
It is problematic in my experience. I think it comes down to Suse as a company lacking direction
Yeah exactly this. Not only lacking direction but the Upstream SUSE recently decided to move away from traditional desktop. Instead, they now offer ALP, which stands for adoptable linux platform. So OpenSuse has no real dekstop products to build of, and the community has to do much more work in order to produce a stable desktop distribution. I was a happy user for a almost 2 years, but in that time the community had discussion about many "small" things, many of which were about "principles". This made ne very uncomfortable in using it, since it felt that every moment the "community" would decide something that would significantly change everything.
openSuSE is cool. It was the first distro I installed way back around 2010 and still the one I would recommend to new people.
Tumbleweed is recommended often here.
I occasionally try out Opensuse since like 2007, but I always find the alternatives better. Why Tumbleweed over Arch, why Leap over Fedora/Debian, why suse over RHEL?
There is a shill on YT called Linuxcast. (I like his content, but he is defo a Suse shill) Personally i'd rather fix some arch fuckups, then to not have the AUR. (or if I don't have the AUR, then just use Debian)
It is not bad, but slow after Arch.
All of my systems run tumbleweed. Even my son and my wife have it as their daily driver. My 2 home servers run MicroOS. OpenSUSE is the most stable distro I've ever used personally.