Hello fellow lemmings! Fedora KDE user here, and quite happy about it, it didn’t break a single time and packages are up to date. The only thing that bother me is DNF’s speed… a single search may take up to 5 seconds, and if I’m dependency-hunting I may need several searches, summing up the delays. I’m asking if switching to openSUSE Tumbleweed could be a good idea or not. The idea of the rolling release is really intriguing, whole system upgrades always makes me nervous, and zypper, being written in C++, should be faster than DNF.

I would stick to Wayland KDE, as my current fedora setup.

Other than this, I don’t see any other obvious pros or cons, so I’m asking you: why should I switch and why shouldn’t I? any tips from someone who used both?

thanks in advance!

  • Felix@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Sadly Zypper isn’t really faster. From my experience, pacman is really the best package manager. But if you still want to try Opensuse. There’s also Leap. It’s a stable release distro, though it mostly uses LTS ⁄ stable software as it’s a clone of SUSE enterprise, while Fedora mostly gets cutting edge software when a new release hits.