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[โ€“] CamilleMellom@jlai.lu 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

While I sue fedora and I think itโ€™s great as an OS why not OpenSuse here to really be EU based ;)?

[โ€“] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

because fedora is a much wider used distro which means it has out of the box support for a lot more tools and packages, as well as a lot more troubleshooting articles around the web

alternative question: why not fedora?

youโ€™re not really giving up, or giving anything by using it as a base distro

[โ€“] CamilleMellom@jlai.lu 11 points 1 month ago

You are supporting a US company (RedHat) while you could support an European one. You also rely on US based server bound to US patent laws (which are much more crappy than EU ones). OpenSuse uses rpm too so you wouldnโ€™t give away much. OpenSuse is also back by the oldest company (German) selling Linux as a product so youโ€™d have great support. As highlighted by others, otherwise, Ubuntu is more widely use than Fedora and Europe based too. By your criteria (support out of the box and troubleshooting articles online) Ubuntu should be the winner.

[โ€“] marsNemophilist@lemmy.wtf -2 points 1 month ago

because opensuse is shit, no community, tools from the early 2000, zero quality control.