What’s up guys this is Harshith and in this article, I am going to be talking about why you will be better off with Arch rather than Open Suse.
Arch is a rolling release OS which means that it doesn’t have a major release every few years but pulls the latest version of whatever you are using. To make things a little fair, I will be comparing Arch Linux with Tumbleweed(Open SUSE’s bleeding-edge OS release).
Arch Linux
Arch Linux was developed by Judd Vinet in early 2005. He started Arch as a minimal and simplified form of Linux or “Linux From Scratch” kinda thing. But he wasn’t satisfied with the repositories of the OSes of that time. So he compiled his repo and called it the AUR(Arch User Repository) which is by far the largest Linux repo.
But why aren’t people(the general public) using it? It is “minimal” or you start with nothing but a black screen with a blinking cursor.
Although this is not completely true Arch Linux does come with a package called archinstall which is just a Python script to simplify the installation process. I will talk about this in another article.
People mainly use Arch because it doesn’t have any bloatware and when you open the System Monitor or htop you won’t see any other process other than the things you installed.
Arch comes a LOT of Desktop Environments(DE) some of them are:
- GNOME
- KDE
- Cinnamon
- i3
- XFCE
- Mate
- And more…
Open SUSE (Tumbleweed)
Open SUSE does have two “flavors” but it is the same but just with more Stable and tested software.
I find it difficult to use Open SUSE because of the YAST manager. Although this is supposed to make things and it does make things easier but it complicates simple things. like using the Web for instance I need some drivers for SUSE to recognize my Wifi card and disable the firewall to actually search. This isn’t relevant but Open SUSE makes KDE feel gloomy.
But on the plus side, you have Stability with Open SUSE and it’s the first choice of companies because of its commercial support.