I have been using Mint for about six months now and while I am not going to start distro hopping, I slowly want to start exploring the rest of Linux.
Originally I was looking at Arch based distros such as Manjaro and EndeavourOS, during which I found out Manjaro is somewhat pointless because you pretty much should not use the AUR on Manjaro or else you will break the system inevitably. EndeavourOS looked solid though.
However, I got a few suggestions regarding OpenSuSE Tumbleweed as a better alternative to Arch based distros and just wanted to know what are the pros and cons of OpenSuSE compared to Arch based distros from your experience?
Look into Distrobox. It allows me to use just about any AUR package via a local Arch container on my Tumbleweed system. You can even export apps and binaries to your local path and applications so that they integrate natively with the base system. I’ve only run into a handful of packages that didn’t work correctly, but I wasn’t surprised at all - they were all pretty low level system packages.
Wow, our admin uses Tumbleweed too? Cool. I’ll look into distrobox next time I want to install something not readily available on openSUSE. Thanks!