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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 19 hours ago

I tried openSUSE a few months back because I wanted to be more closely associated with SUSE than Red Hat (I had to update to a new RHEL release at work about a year ago and really hated some of the shit they were pulling).

Here's a list of issues I had:

Was forced to not encrypt my system because for some reason the unlock screen rarely recognized my keyboard was connected and I couldn't input the password. I would have to turn on the computer, then reboot at least once to get it to work.
The absolute confusion surrounding YaST when I tried it out. The community made it sound like the best thing about openSUSE, but also don't use it because it's terrible. Apparently it's being depreciated now. Don't want to learn an entire system just for it to be removed.
I didn't experience any issues with this but it makes me nervous: Rolling Release + Required (for me) Community Repos. Meanwhile the standard release is slower than Fedora
This one is a big "first world problem" but it really annoyed me. zypper, it's one of the longest package manager names, and i can't tab to autocomplete because there are other packages with similar names.

Now, all of these I problems I could probably fix. But it just wasn't really worth the effort when my main issue was: "The downstream company associated with my Distro did some dumb shit that doesn't really impact my system."