Another rant

[Liam Proven]

On 16 November 2017 at 17:41, Teresa e Junior <teresaejunior at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've used Debian for more than 7 years, and tried using openSUSE too for
> some time.
>
> My experience with openSUSE was that it is a lot less stable than
> Debian/Ubuntu. They have a variety of nice tools not found in Debian land,
> but bugs were much more constant, to the point of being very frustrating.

That's interesting. I work for SUSE these days, so I would welcome
pointers of anything you can reproduce. I will find who to feed the
information to so that they can rectify it.

I run it on my work PCs, obviously, and I have no significant problems
with it. There are features of APT/Synaptic that I miss, but mostly,
it works well.

> Debian, on the other hand, is stable, but lacks many things that Ubuntu
> adds, like PPAs, fully working meta-packages, etc. Besides, many times I
> found myself with software containing packages for Ubuntu but not for
> Debian. I had to compile a lot of stuff by myself. Also, I don't find Ubuntu
> to be less stable than Debian.

Agreed, on all counts. However, between GNOME 3, systemd and other
things, it is putting me off a little.

I was surprised by how complete Devuan was, and how little work it was
to get installed and running. A complete current install, logged in to
the Xfce desktop, with a Wifi connection and everything, takes under
250MB of RAM, which is fairly good these days.

> Xubuntu is generally very stable and comes with good defaults. In my
> opinion, it is the best Xfce distro today. Installing Xfce on Debian always
> required a lot more configuration and maintenance from my part. It may use a
> few MB less of RAM, but at the end of the day, a single browser tab will use
> a lot more than that!

I'd probably mostly agree with that, too, and it's a possible future OS for me.

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