Goodbye Arch & hello OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Recently, there was a discussion on omg.lol’ers about which good Linux distros are worth trying, and someone during the discussion mentioned Fedora Sway. So, I decided to overwrite my lovely Arch & Hyprland install on my Dell laptop, and install Fedora, which ultimately led me to installing openSUSE Tumbleweed. I started off with installing the Fedora Sway edition, and I have to say it mostly just works, and as a bonus it doesn’t have a garish colour scheme (here’s looking at you, Manjaro!). But after using it for 48 hours, I felt too constricted with the guardrails/distro decisions that they put in place—to be clear, all distros will, to a certain extent, put guardrails in place. For example, I wasn’t able to use systemd-boot, nor systemd-networkd. The power management out of the box really did not work well with my Dell laptop. I also wanted my regular dopamine hit with regular updates to Linux apps much like I had with Arch, so I realised quite soon that I really did want to continue using a rolling release distro. Fedora, I believe (happy to be corrected), updates their distro twice a year, and I think that Fedora 42 is coming out in a couple of months. ...