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  • But, it sounds to me like it’s more adapted for smaller devices and IoT, like the Steam Deck or similar handheld devices.

    There are plenty of desktop focused immutable Linux distros. With Fedora Sikverblue/Kinoite probably being the most prominent one, but there are also Vanilla OS, the ublue distros and the one I’m personally using, (openSUSE) Aeon. NixOS technically counts too I think, but that one has it’s whole own philosophy/structure that extends way beyond just being immutable

    What were the pros and cons according to you?

    Pros: increased stability/less risk of breakage, sepaeation of base system/apps that will be more intuitive to many non-Linux users, (Flatpak) apps tend to always be the newest version
    Cons: still some smaller pain points around app integration, some flatpaks might have some features that don’t fully work or you might need to change a permission (this has gotten a lot better already though), less suited for tinkerers









  • fr0g@piefed.socialtoLinux@lemmy.mlSUSE Requests openSUSE to Rebrand
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    2 years ago

    And you really think, people who are willing and able to buy enterprise support for their Linux distro get confused by the naming?

    No, I don’t think that. I *know* that because I’m active in the community.

    OpenSuse is essentially free marketing for SUSE, nobody would know them otherwise.

    That is absolute nonsense. SUSE mostly serves large enterprise customers. That’s an entirely different demographic from people who care about Desktop Linux or setting up a home server.

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    its market share is relatively small compared to Red Hat or Canonical.

    I’m pretty sure SUSE is bigger than Canonical.

    Editedit: According to wikipedia SUSE’s revenue is about twice as high as Canonical’s