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[–] InverseParallax@voyager.lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Could not agree more. My only argument in favor of suse is that they've been here since the beginning and never fucked about.

Thats a rare record in any tech game.

But many choices always beats 1, maybe somebody sane should make an enterprise debian, I'm just worried they might somehow manage to kill the golden goose, debian's sanity is critical to linux's viability as a non-bullshit os.

[–] vacuumflower@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Agree about SUSE, it's really amazing.

Yes, Debian and also Gentoo. Slackware may not be dead, but out of race in the sense of being a stabilizer as one of the "main" (culturally, not in numbers) distributions, and Arch has lost most of sanity it had (not much to begin with).