I've been using Linux on the desktop for more than twenty years, and there are people who have been using it for longer than that. So if this isn't an old article, it's factually incorrect.
MyNameIsRichard
Fedora and OpenSuSe are both forks of commercial distros
It's a bit more complicated than that with openSUSE. Tumbleweed is a snapshot of the Factory repo that's put through automated testing, and if it passes, it is released straight away. Suse Enterprise Linux is also a snapshot of the Factory repo that's put through a polishing process and when it's ready, released. Leap is a community fork of Suse Enterprise Linux.
Both Tumbleweed and Leap are good, the former if you want bang up to date software and the latter if you prefer older software in a more stable, as in unchanging, distro.
The distro itself is OK, and it's fine if you switch to their "unstable" repositories so it directly mirrors Arch. Where the problems lie is in the admin. In the past they have:
- Let their certificates expire and suggested that users put their clocks back to work around it, several times.
- DDOSed the AUR with coding mistakes in pamac, at least twice.
- Had controversy regarding their finances.
- Other things that I can't remember right now.
They seem to have sorted themselves out as their have been no reports of mistakes recently. But trust once lost, is hard to regain.
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