Opensuse since back in the SuSE days. I’ve dabbled with other distros and even had a somewhat extended run with Fedora when their Gnome implementation was better, but I’ve always gone back to SuSE. mostly I just like Yast although I find I’ve used it less and less with time spent understanding what it does and how to do that other ways.

I had dabbled with Linux and BSDs in the late 90s to early 2000s. I was using Win2k on main computer, fully updated with antivirus software when I started getting popups in Internet Explorer, and I never even used IE. My internet was slow so I went to a book store and bought a SuSE book with CDs.

Opensuse tumbleweed. It’s solid, stays up to date because it’s a rolling release, and Yast can be a life saver for new users.

It’s a Windows home server, how else is he going too keep it up.

I was given a CD set for SUSE 8.2, then bought the 9.0 book set from a book store because I liked it but wanted the hard copy to reference when I was messing things up. I’ve tried a ton of other distros, but keep going back to Suse because I’m used to it.

I use Gnome defaults.

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Installing any OS is not for everyday users. Most people wouldn’t have any idea how to install windows either. Whoever is setting up the computer should take care of all of that to begin with. I’ve set up multiple computers for older family members with SUSE and they are all happy with them, and I get almost no tech support calls. The one exception is printing, but you get that with anything because printing sucks. It’s really to my advantage with my step father’s computer because he has negative computer knowledge. He was one of those people who had a million add on bars in IE because he’d click the accept button on every shady website he visited.

True, but how would you organise that? There are plenty of scummy crypo-bros who would be more than willing to use this to line their wallet.

https://xkcd.com/1172/

I ran yellowdog on my PS3 until they took away the otherOS

Meego, a combination of Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo. It only ever shipped on one device, the Nokia N9.

My first smart phone was a Nokia N9. I loved Meego which was between Maemo and sailfish. I hatred Microsoft before that, but them killing Nokia made my hate burn even brighter.

Yes, in the linux stat. The otheros option on the early PS3 allowed you to boot linux, which is what most, of not all, of the clusters used.

Your infographic shows that suse was rebased off jurix and redhat after it stopped being Slackware based.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

I used FreeBSD before I used Linux. It was still really complicated to set up at the time. I can’t speak to modern versions. I also used openbsd more recently to make a router out of a sun ultra 5 I trash picked. Learning pf and seeing up a router all by hand was a good learning experience. Then the hd crashed and I didn’t have a backup of my configs. I didn’t have enough ambition to start from scratch, and there are plenty of modern distros that are ready made routers.

Terrible GUI? Microsoft can’t even keep their print dialog consistent across their own programs, let alone dealing with different dialog boxes across third party software.

I agree on the package manager. I got so used to rpm style from SuSE that I have a hard time with Debian based systems.