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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I think, a more serious attempt to summarize openSUSE would probably be: Functionality

    Debian, Arch, Fedora and such are all weirdly similar in that they focus so much on minimalism. For example, Debian uses dash as the default shell, which breaks TTYs, but possibly squeezes out a tiny bit of performance, so I guess, that's worth it...?

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

    Debian only uses dash for the system shell, and it does improve performance a bit given how many shell scripts run on a typical Linux system. Interactive shell is still set to Bash by default.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

    Sure, it's still just certainly a choice. It took me multiple years to realize why it's so broken on TTYs, as well as when you run newgrp and probably other places.

    I thought Linux just sometimes goes into this buggy state, where you can't make any typos. At one point, I broke my GUI session and had to fix it, typing commands off of my phone screen, without making any typos.

    Learning that this is Working As Intended™ just killed me...

    These days, I know that you can just run bash (or your shell of choice) to get out of this buggy state, and I still set bash as the system shell when I have to use a Debian-based system, because I just do not care about however much performance it brings in.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

    i used Tumbleweed with KDE. It is something i can recommend. Not that customizable, but it has tons of features and very stable for a rolling distro. It only breaks if you try to customize stuff too much

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

    still much more customizable than GNOME