Quick Poll: Home Office - openSUSE or Debian?

As the title states, which is more for home office use?

Both and neither. Why are you restricting yourself to a choice between these two? What would you describe as "home office use"?

Perhaps the op just means rpm or deb?

Originally Posted by holden87 As the title states, which is more for home office use?

CentOS!

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann CentOS!

Why?

I think the OP should define what "home office" means to them. Either one will run on a box to help warm the office, but perhaps there's more to it than that.

That said, I certainly have my own opinion to share. I've read good things about OpenSUSE Leap, and even had it installed for a short while. It really works nicely, and has a nice installer. In the end, I didn't stick with it because I'm used to (read: spoiled) by Debian's immense package set/system.

I still think Debian is the best base distro for anyone.
(Minus systemd of course ).

I'm running Cinnamon on CentOS...works for me.

I started mine on OpenSuse - then graduated to Slackware.

Originally Posted by hydrurga Why [CentOS]?

I did once try Debian for a month, and I hated it! A reviewer summed it up for me when they wrote that Debian was a great server OS inadequately adapted to the desktop. OpenSUSE is not, of course, claiming to be an enterprise system, any more than Fedora is. But basically these things are a matter of habit: my first Linux was Red Hat, then Fedora 1–14, then CentOS.

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann I did once try Debian for a month, and I hated it! A reviewer summed it up for me when they wrote that Debian was a great server OS inadequately adapted to the desktop. OpenSUSE is not, of course, claiming to be an enterprise system, any more than Fedora is. But basically these things are a matter of habit: my first Linux was Red Hat, then Fedora 1–14, then CentOS.

Starting with openSUSE Leap 15, one can easily switch to SUSE without reinstalling, so that kinda makes it enterprise ready. Also, look at what they are doing with GNUHealth:
https://www.suse.com/c/gnu-health-op...re-management/
https://news.opensuse.org/2018/05/26...to-gnu-health/
https://mangolassi.it/topic/12984/gn...s-to-hospitals

In general I say, use what you are used to/most comfortable with, and can find the most help with when needed.

I voted for Debian because I like Debian better than I like OpenSUSE and I'm not a fan of rolling release distros, but, when I leave my biases behind, I really think that either would be quite acceptable for a home office.

Voted for Debian as it is what I started with on my open source journey. It has the raw stability and reliability coupled with the massive repositories that Cent and Suse can't hold a candle to. Makes life easy.

Originally Posted by fatmac I still think Debian is the best base distro for anyone. (Minus systemd of course ).

It means: Devuan
(And it is also my point.)

openSUSE tumbleweed, of course.