Servers are a different story but for Desktop, OpenSUSE.
Because:
It’s stable even on their rolling OS (Tumbleweed)
Gaming works exceptionally well
CUDA works with little effort
RPM-based (personal preference)
zypper is an excellent package manager and my experience has been better than that of yum/dnf
Extensive native packages and 3rd party repos
No covert advertising in the OS
Minimal (no?) Telemetry
Easy to bind to active directory
it feels polished and well built
I do not have to mess with it to make it work
Part of my transition from Windows to Linux was that basic tasks like installing software or even the OS itself shouldn’t be a high effort endeavour. I should be able to point to a package file or run a package manager and be able to go about my day without running “make” and working my way through dependency hell.
I say this as a Linux user of all different flavours for well over 15 years who has a deep love for what it brings to the table. If we want it to be common place with non-IT folks, it needs to work and it needs to be simple to use.
Servers are a different story but for Desktop, OpenSUSE.
Because:
Part of my transition from Windows to Linux was that basic tasks like installing software or even the OS itself shouldn’t be a high effort endeavour. I should be able to point to a package file or run a package manager and be able to go about my day without running “make” and working my way through dependency hell.
I say this as a Linux user of all different flavours for well over 15 years who has a deep love for what it brings to the table. If we want it to be common place with non-IT folks, it needs to work and it needs to be simple to use.