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RJ Trujillo

I have multiple

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed sits on my desktop. I find it to be the most stable rolling release I've ever used. Everything on OpenSUSE is streamlined too so things that would usually take a few minutes from an admin perspective, only take a few seconds. I also prefer zypper to all other package managers, though software selection can be sparse leading me to have to hunt down packages every once and a while. Also, not a fan of them blacklisting filesystems by default, but I get why they did it and respect that choice

On my laptop however, I run Manjaro. Primarily because of the issue I just mentioned. Literally everything can be found in the AUR and when I'm out and about that's pretty important as my laptop is critical to everything I do as a student. I just don't have time to hunt packages down. I need them in an instant a lot of the time and Manjaro makes my life easier in that regard

If I didn't need more up to date packages though, I'd probably be using Mint. Mint just seems to work the way I need it to. Biggest problem with Mint is they always delay the release of their KDE spin