Linux mint or linux opensuse

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Developers describe Linux Mint as «The most popular desktop Linux distribution and the 3rd most widely used home operating system behind Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS«. The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use. On the other hand, openSUSE is detailed as «The makers’ choice for sysadmins, developers and desktop users«. The openSUSE project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of Linux everywhere. openSUSE creates one of the world’s best Linux distributions, working together in an open, transparent and friendly manner as part of the worldwide Free and Open Source Software community.

Linux Mint and openSUSE can be primarily classified as «Operating Systems» tools.

I liked manjaro a lot, the huge support it has and the variety of tools it provides is just awesome. But due to its parent platform being Arch Linux it has bleeding-edge technology and that meaning, we get updated ‘daily’, and if we keep updating the system daily, due to the bugs in the recent updates the system sometimes used to crash, this made the OS really unstable. However, one can avoid such crashes using periodical and careful system/package updates. I now use LinuxMint which is based on Ubuntu, and this OS is completely stable with reliable(mostly tested) updates. And, since this OS is backed up by UBUNTU the concerns/questions one can encounter while using the OS can be easily rectified using the UBUNTU community, which is pretty good. Though this is backed up on UBUNTU it most certainly does NOT include the proprietary stuff of UBUNTU, which is on the bright side of the OS. That’s it! Happy Computing.

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openSUSE or Linux Mint?

I’ve been messing around with ubuntu for a while now and I’ve decided I want to give another distro a try. This is partially because my system is so cluttered that I’m tempted to reinstall ubuntu, so I figure if I’m doing that I might as well get some more experience with linux all around and just install a different one instead

I understand that mint is very much like ubuntu, but I do like some things about it — particularly gnome 2 instead of unity. I virtualbox’d it and it also seemed smoother and a little more polished than ubuntu, but I stress that I am by no means an expert.

I have also recently heard of openSUSE. I don’t know much about it, but KDE looks interesting and I’ve heard openSUSE is a little more for experienced users than ubuntu, which I like, because I’m really trying to learn about linux.

I’m open to other possibilities as well, really just taking recommendations here to try some other stuff out and get some linux experience. I tried installing arch to a virtualbox to try it out but had a really hard time getting wireless internet to work and gave up, so I’m not sure if I’m ready for a distro that intense. If anybody would be willing to give me some advice or a recommendation, that’d be great.

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I can just comment on Linux Mint, haven’t used Suse for a very long, Mint is awesome, I install maybe like two programs that I use after a Mint install and Im ready to go, its super simple and works right out the box, no messing around with anything, has been a very nice and stress free distro for me.

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For learning purposes, I would say openSUSE just because it is slightly different than Ubuntu and you would get some experience with .rpm packages. But for general use I personally recommend Mint instead, because most things just work out of the box. You won’t learn as much though, since it is very similar to Ubuntu.

They are both great operating systems, so you might want to eventually try both.

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I’m open to other possibilities as well, really just taking recommendations here to try some other stuff out and get some linux experience. I tried installing arch to a virtualbox to try it out but had a really hard time getting wireless internet to work and gave up, so I’m not sure if I’m ready for a distro that intense. If anybody would be willing to give me some advice or a recommendation, that’d be great.

You have to just install read,study,google-search on your own. Each one takes its own
learning curve. Find a good post-installation guide is best.
If it is not Debian base it most likely uses grub-legacy (grub) and will not work well with
Ubuntu’s grub2 (grub-pc) DO NOT install their grub at install. Choose in anaconda installer
which they most use to not install grub at all. Go to Ubuntu after install and do a sudo update-grub and it will be put in grub config and as a menu entry and if you can boot
into it. grub and grub2 do not play together well at all. If you are going to mess with various distro’s and you are new to linux here is a valuable link to keep.
HOWTO: Purge and Reinstall Grub 2 from the Live CD — Ubuntu Forums
Grub/XP/Vista Bootloader — Ubuntu Forums
##Check out your wifi card and graphics card and see if they are proprietary drivers
that have to be installed after install. If you have drivers that are already in linux kernel
then you are OK there. Every distro has different ideas on what drivers they will give you. As you found out in Arch.
Study your cards, read all you can about them. Get to know your machine like the back of your hand. Good luck and enjoy Linux.
Me I like Ubuntu and everyone has an opinion, that is mine.

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OpenSuse or Mint?

Post by Huskell » Tue Mar 17, 2015 3:00 am

Hello, I know here is the Mint forums, but I would like your honest opinions about the topic.

I’m very new to linux, and know some things but not much. I only have one PC (notebook) and I use it to work as programmer, I’ll install one of these two distributions at it. I would like a distro that is easy and I can learn things when I have free time, and at the same time is stable and comfortable to use as workstation. Couldn’t find a live OpenSuse, so I’ve only tested the Mint so far, and I liked it, but I want to make sure that it will not dissapoint me, since I use this PC for work, I would like to avoid formatting it often.

If you know other distros that fill my needs, you can write about it too. Thanks.

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Re: OpenSuse or Mint?

Post by BigEasy » Tue Mar 17, 2015 4:59 am

Officialy, stable is any stable distro release (meaning not alpfa, beta, release candidate, e.t.c) . But result depend of your hardware. No guarantee that everything will work at cpecific hardware just right «out of the box». Not out of the box too.
Feeling comfort depend of persone used specific OS with specific DE. One can feel comfort, other — not.
Since you asked about OpenSUSE, I have to say that current release is not bad. But every few months they releasing new and soon you will face with problem to upgrade. No LTS, no rolling releases. Just new release after every few months. Who knows will new releases good or bad? But current release is good, as I said.

Post by vl1969 » Tue Mar 17, 2015 5:43 am

I would say, for a workstation use Mint. OpenSuse is good, but have its issues and limitations so if you are not well versed I. Linux might have some trouble running it as desktop. I have an OpenSuse fileserver running for over 2 years no issues, but as of December last year all my desktops are Mint. Much easier time of maintaining and over all use. Also lots of programs available to use.

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Post by Bolle1961 » Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:33 am

Huskell wrote: Couldn’t find a live OpenSuse, so I’ve only tested the Mint so far, and I liked it, but I want to make sure that it will not dissapoint me, since I use this PC for work, I would like to avoid formatting it often

Some alternative media (eg. live and rescue systems) are also available, although they are less tested and recommended for only limited use. Click here to display these alternative versions.

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Post by Pierre » Tue Mar 17, 2015 6:54 am

one on of my PCs — there is OpenSuse,, PCLinuxOS,, Mint 17 in a multi boot configuration. ..

OpenSuse is a nicely polished O/S that that uses the RPMs as it’s software source.
— this has a few advantages over DEB based software system.
there is a few programs that are only available as a RPM.
& so you have to use alien. ..

but: Wether you could give it to a N00B as a starter Linux O/S .. ..

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Post by altair4 » Tue Mar 17, 2015 7:21 am

I’m very new to linux, and know some things but not much. I only have one PC (notebook) and I use it to work as programmer, I’ll install one of these two distributions at it. I would like a distro that is easy and I can learn things when I have free time, and at the same time is stable and comfortable to use as workstation.

This is why VirtualBox was created. With it you can install both as VBox guests and decide for yourself which one you prefer. You didn’t mention what your current OS is but there is a VirtualBox installer for both Windows and OSX: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

As a side note I would argue that any distro in the Debian and/or Ubuntu branch of Linux would be a better starting point for a new user and it’s not because of a technical superiority over others but because of support.

If you have a problem and don’t get a coherent answer in the Mint forum you can ask the same question in the larger Ubuntu forum or even the Debian forum ( admittedly the Debian forum is not for the faint of heart ).

Please add a [SOLVED] at the end of your original subject header if your question has been answered and solved.

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