openSUSE or CentOS as a universal system?
Now at work there is Ubuntu, which performs the role mainly of the desktop, through VNC, if necessary, I connect from home to finish something, and from part of the server, since it has an svn server and tomcat again for synchronization with the home computer. Without a background, I will say that I want to try RPM distributions. Two options immediately came to mind: openSUSE and CentOS. The first one attracts a serious manufacturer, and the second one is fully compatible with RedHat, which means availability of a huge amount of qualified documentation. Which of these distributions will cause less problems when setting up and working? Or am I looking in the wrong direction at all?
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There is another option - Fedora.
Actually, try both systems yourself. Decide for yourself what you like best. I tried a lot of things and ended up back where I started - Ubuntu. But this is my way and no one else's.
I once also had this question: what to choose? of all the distros, I chose openSUSE,how and why I chose-I was sitting on Windows, I started Googling,and I was not looking for hollivars, but forums, I looked at the number of topics and response time to newly created topics, I also looked at the level of questions, for example, on ubunt-about such distros,there are too many questions,to put it mildly, "blonde" and stupid, which can be solved without asking a question, but simply found in the documentation.so I decided that although the support is great, but my the question may get lost, among other questions...What am I talking about?I'm leading this to the fact that hollivar is about to start and they will advise different things, but you will make the decision based on your inner beliefs,knowledge and capabilities.to solve this question, you should look through the forums on the web for the presence of those topics that are relevant to you, whether it is setting up a whistle-fart, then look where there is more information and where there are more problems without answers, I hope my stream of consciousness will lead to the right search for you distra, it's up to you.
In my personal experience, it is more difficult to administer openSUSE than Ubuntu. This is expressed in the driver settings for printers and updating the system to a newer version(for example, from 11.2 to 11.3, problems with X may occur). When installing packages via the GUI, all dependencies are not resolved(if they are resolved in the console via zypper). On the other hand, YaST is quite convenient and easy to understand. So for an advanced user, there will be no problems. I think it's all here depends on your personal preferences
In general, CentOS is used more often on servers, and it will be more difficult (longer) to get help from the community about desktop software than in openSUSE. But about the server documentation, you correctly noticed.
In general, people rarely leave deb -distributions on rpm -based. Rather the opposite. If I were you, I'd rather play with all these things at home, because there's a very good chance you'll come back.
Both systems are good as servers. and both are possible as desktops. but opensuse is still better as a desktop.
I personally support openSUSE. CentOS is too painful for some server-side. Besides, I've never liked Red Hat: -)
And I will vote against openSUSE, because it is very raw and terribly unstable. I installed it as an experiment after several years of working under Mandriva and was extremely dissatisfied. I came back in the end.
Taste and color...
Personally, I like rolling-release distributions like gentoo, archlinux