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Hear me out, the mascot is a freaking chameleon, that's cool as shit man.

Also it's a German engineered distro, German engineering wins again!

Zypper is just a funnier name for a package manager and it has Tumbleweed which is arch but actually doesn't break for once!

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[–] bsergay@discuss.online 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the reply!

In general, I'd have to say I agree with your post:

  • Reset option is indeed a necessity. Especially on 'immutable' distros. Because, why even bother otherwise?
  • Their community seems less diverse compared to Fedora's. Granted, I believe Fedora's community is probably most diverse due to how (relatively speaking) popular it is in combination with its release cycle being (roughly) in the middle of what you'd get otherwise with Arch on one end and Debian on the other.

However, I'm hopeful of what they'll cook for their 'immutable' spins.

Btw, FWIW, regarding the reset option, perhaps there's reason to be optimistic regarding its future; here's Richard Brown on the topic and here's a page he refers to related to this.