I vote for Green Gecko Swag OS. 🙃

In all seriousness, OpenSuse needs a rebranding, it already has all what is needed to be popular. They have great community support and multiple distros that are source based ultimately on Tumbleweed, which has really good QA; especially for a rolling distribution. Suse overall is a “weird” name as it’s not obvious how to pronounce it (Sue-sa, similar to salsa).

Thank you for the correction. I totally did not notice that.

Tumbleweed is rock solid. I took out an old Intel based Macbook that has not been updated in two years (I stopped traveling for work and no longer needed a laptop so the software got outdated). OpenSuse Tumbleweed updated flawlessly. It switched to the newest gcc, switched over to pipewire, etc. without a single issue. I did not read the latest news as I used to do on Arch.

Also, OpenSuse is a family of distros. Choose what works for you. Tumbleweed is the main product and the base of all Suse offerings (and I recommend it).

• Tumbleweed rolls similarly to Arch but has more QA testing
• Slowroll is just snapshots of Tumbleweed that are updated less frequently. May replace Leap.
• Leap does traditional releases similar to other OSes such as Mac, Windows, and Ubuntu
• MicroOS (and its flavors) update the same way Android does; as a full image. You could pick a MicroOS flavor such as Aeon (Gnome) or Kalpa (KDE) and stick to Flatpaks which as a strategy works great on the Steamdeck but I have yet to try it on desktop.

As someone who has tried several Linux distributions what was important to me was how stable updates were. On that old Macbook, that I used for ten years; I mostly used Chakra, Arch, and Tumbleweed. That Tumbleweed install was at least six years old.

I did have one issue, but it was a kernel introduced bug. Long since fixed. Someone messed up Apple EFI boot; so I had to load the EFI menu when booting and then select my internal SSD to start the OS.

If you need snapd, install it. It’s not like I now consider you a degenerate for using snaps. It’s just a packaging format. I just understand why only Canonical enables it by default. If anything its annoying there is a handful of apps that provide snaps but not flatpaks.

Outside of certbot, I cannot think of anything that requires snapd over flatpak. I think certbot also has a PIP installation method anyways. I think it makes sense for everyone but Canonical to simply disable it or remove it by default. It’s not personal, flatpak won the format war outside a few niche programs.

Firefox with the extension “Dark Reader” is great. There are some websites I have to disable it, but it’s rare. I also recommend uBlock Origin.

Edit: I see someone already recommended dark reader. But it really is a must have extension. It knows if your system theme is set to light or dark and matches it automatically.

Finally, peace for all societies.