 Open Sousa may very well be my favorite distro of all time if you've watched my channel for any amount of time over the course of the last Three or four or six months or so you've no doubt heard me talk about open Sousa I just made a video a few days ago about open Sousa So I've talked about it a lot on this channel And I will probably continue to talk about it a lot because I'm gonna be continuing to use it for quite some time It's a very good distribution and I would say again that it's my favorite I've talked about how it's the best Linux distro Although I've also argued that there is no such thing as the best Linux distro because really what's best is what's best for you But that's all beside the point open Sousa is a fantastic Distribution and I've talked about some of the things that I like about it over the course of the last two or a hundred or so days But what I want to talk about today is kind of codify all of those things I'm gonna talk about my five favorite things about open Sousa Just kind of get them all in one place so you can kind of understand a little bit about why I like it so much And why I've talked about it so much on the channel So that's what we're gonna do today But before we jump in if you leave a thumbs up on this video I'd really appreciate it and if you haven't hit the subscribe button yet also do that as well because it really helped the channel So open Sousa as I said is a very very good Linux distribution The first thing that I truly like about it And I think that this is probably my favorite feature out of everything is that it does a fantastic job with butter a fast now Butterfest I've talked about what that is in a separate video. I'll link that either, you know Pure in the comment section below or the description below Basically what it means just very simply is that it allows you to screw up or Break your system as much as you want and easily return to the point before You messed up and I like this about open Sousa, but it's not an open Sousa specific thing A lot of distributions do this The next users are out there like oh my god, this is the this is the next feature. This is what Nick is all about True I suppose the Dora also uses butter a fest and does a fairly good job of using butter fest snapshots Several other distributions use it You can also set this up on a boot to or dead mean if you want but open Sousa out of the box Does the best job of it because it takes reasonable snapshots at reasonable times and it makes them easily accessible and Because it uses Legit default very Standard sub volume names you can use things like timeshift you want and you can do so right of the box Whereas if you were to try to use timeshift on fedora You'd have to make some changes because it doesn't use is it doesn't use standard Butterfest sub volume names that uses just something different and you can't actually use timeshift with those Sub volume names it just doesn't work You have to make some changes there open Sousa uses the default ones And it does a very good job of allowing you to basically use whatever tools you want to manage your sub volumes and Your snapshots, which means that it's very easy when you mess up to roll back to a different snapshots and just continue on with your day and It just works phenomenally well, and I love that about it now again This feature is not very specific to open Sousa other distributions You can do this with but I found that just works the best at least for me so far on open Sousa now one of the things you think you would need to use those snapshots for very often is Actually returning to previous versions of open Sousa when something messes up from an update Because open Sousa is a rolling release So the second thing that I like about open Sousa is that it is a rolling release But it's also a better rolling release than any other rolling release. You've ever seen now That's quite a claim to make Matt. What does that mean? What does that even mean? Isn't manjaro better or arch or even fedora is technically a rolling release. I suppose kind of Sort of what does it mean? Well on open Sousa? you get all of the latest packages for the most part and It is for the most part It's not across the board like it is with art with arch that is basically like the Wild Wild West you get all of the early releases of every package that you ever would want and That obviously causes its own problems with open Sousa And I'm gonna I hate to make this comparison, but it's kind of does the manjaro way of things But although open Sousa existed long before Manjaro, so we'll just call manjaro doing it the open Sousa way of doing things So with especially now when I say this guys got to remember that I'm talking about tumbleweed specifically So tumbleweed is the rolling release version of open Sousa. This doesn't apply to all versions So what open Sousa tumbleweed does is that it releases things on a delay It does testing before it's pushed out to users. So for example with the Linux kernel We don't get the most recent version of the Linux kernel until usually two three or four weeks sometimes Down the line it took quite a long time for us to get six six it took quite a while for us to get six that seven I think I actually just got six that seven Just a couple of days ago to be honest with you It's but it so it takes some time to get the brand new version of the Linux kernel It's the same way with a lot of the core Linux utilities now I they obviously don't test everything that is in the repository Nor is the most recent version of everything in the repository. So for example the hyperland portal I've been I've talked about how I've switched to hyperland the hyperland portal that is in the repositories is quite old It's because it's maintained by someone that's not from open Sousa It's just a dude that maintains that package and they don't push the most recent version So unlike on Arch where everything is the brand new shiniest thing on open Sousa It's a mixture of brand brand new Tested and some older stuff and while it can kind of cause some issues I would say because you're looking especially if you're looking for the most recent version of some things as long as you're You know what to expect I like this way of doing things because it does mean that my system tends to be more stable Which is what I'm looking for at the moment now. I want a stable system with newer packages Otherwise, I'd use something like Debian Which is all about stability and you can just use the old crusty stuff as long as you want to and that's how you're Going to maintain your stability with open Sousa you get fairly new stuff without the breakages of arch But without using old crusty stuff like with Debian So I like that way of doing things and I think that that's probably the best way of doing things I think so that's number two number three is package availability So I think that when I came into the open Sousa Sphere my biggest worry was how am I gonna get all the packages that I want because I was so used to having the AUR at My fingertips now before I used open Sousa I was on Fedora and I was on Arch those two distributions Obviously have a very large selection of packages available to their users Specifically with Arch obviously you have the AUR with Fedora They have the COPR or copper and both of those systems allow basically users to put things into a repository Kind of similarly not exactly the same obviously and that means that they both have very large Selections of software like I said with open Sousa before I knew anything about open Sousa All I thought that they had was the open Sousa repositories and on my first few months of using open Sousa It I thought that basically that's all there was and I was mostly happy with The selection that I had I had to build quite a few things, but that was okay I was kind of expecting that to go in and I got me into distro box So when I had when I had to find something that wasn't in the open Sousa repositories I could install it through a arch distro box and I'd be happy and I could just go about my day But then I learned about the open build service now I'm going to make a separate video on the open build service, but basically the open build service from a user perspective Not from a developer perspective, but from a user perspective is kind of like the AUR It's not exactly the same technologically not even close, but from a user perspective It gives you access to a ton more software and you can install that software using a package manager called OPI Now OPI basically just searches the open build service or OPI basically just searches the open build service or OBS and If you use these tools in conjunction with zipper or with YAS You have a selection that is equal to at least fedora. It may not be equal to the AUR I would probably guess that the OBS and Open Sousa have significantly less packages in them than the AUR just because it's the AUR But overall with the addition of the open build service and the stuff in the open Sousa repositories I would say that there's a fantastic selection of software I've come to the point where I hardly ever use distro box despite liking it so much because the vast majority of stuff that I need is In either the open Sousa repositories or in an open build and service repositories So I've been able to get basically everything that I need from my distribution Natively and that's great. So package availability is quite good on open Sousa and I've been very very impressed with it Now is it as good as the AUR? Like I said, no, I don't think so Specifically you're gonna so let's just talk about a negative I don't want to be all positive that be against the grain here But the downside of the open build service is that it's kind of like the COPR and Fedora and with PPAs on Ubuntu so people can upload stuff to those things Well, it's kind of like a you are too and in this so you can upload stuff to those repositories and Never update those things again and that stuff kind of just stays there forever as long as it builds and That means that you're gonna find some old crusty stuff in those repositories. It's just the nature of that beast so that happens with all repositories that are user run and The open build services is no different there So that's kind of a small negative but overall I think the open build service is a fantastic thing and it offers so much more Software than you'd get if you just use the standard repositories. So that's number three number four is the community now This is a very vague thing to talk about and I've had both negative and positive things to say about basically every community that I've joined on Linux and I think that's basically the same. That's something that is universal because every community has their phenomenally helpful people and every community has their phenomenally Asholic people if we can say that word, you know, the Every community has their bad apples and open sewers Community is no different but overall the community has been very good I wouldn't say that they're the most friendly bunch is my only critique They can be kind of prickly very blunt especially on the forums but overall if you go into your support request with the logs and Specific things Explanations of over what is happening to you chances are you're gonna find that help You're gonna find that help quickly and if you can't find them on the forums. They are on discord They're on IRC. I think they have a telegram channel There's all you know You can go to all different places to get help the the best place I've found is on their discord because there's mostly a lot of people that are almost all the time and If you have something to ask and you need to support for something You can get that support very very easily and I've never not one time ever been told to read the manual Not a single time. I have been told to come back with logs several times So if you are going to go in and get help make sure you check your logs and cat that stuff into a file Somewhere where you can upload that to the forums It'll save both of them and use some time and some bluntness because they do get very blunt when they when you waste their time So and I think that's just the nature of the beast. I don't think that's anything just you know negative So just know that going in but overall the community has been a fantastic experience And I'm happy to have joined them So I think that overall over the course of the next how many 18 months or so that I still have on my Open Suza challenge, I will contribute to that as much as I can so the community has been good So there's that one now I will say this that my experience with open Suza is somewhat unique to me not it's not unique to me, but it's special To a certain group of people like me people who have managed to get it installed because I have converted quite a few people Over to open Suza over the course of the last six months. I'm very proud of the fact that I've converted those people I've also talked a whole bunch of other people into trying open Suza turns out. I'm a bit of influencer What is this world coming to? really, but I've talked a lot of people into trying open Suza because they you know, they see me liking open Suza and think well Maybe I'll have as good an experience as Matt has well That hasn't always been the case with a lot of people The way that I've seen this kind of happen is that if you can get open Suza to be installed You're gonna have an experience like mine. Basically, it's going to be rock steady rock solid if you will it's going to Be very very stable for you You'll have a lot of packages available to you You can do all the things that I've talked about in this video and have all those experiences But the other side of the coin is that a lot of people can't get it installed at all That it's usually the two outcomes that I've seen with open Suza either you can't get it installed at all At all in which case you move on to something different or you get it installed and you find that it's awesome I don't know why there's no middle ground there or Why some people can't get it installed. It's probably a hardware thing But that seems to be the kind of the two paths that people go down with open Suza for those people who get it installed like me I think that most people have the same experience where it's just a phenomenally stable distro And again, I guys got to remember everything that I said in this video I should have talked about this earlier is specific to open Suza tumbleweed Other versions may or not have the same, you know experience. So just keep that in mind I should have said that the beginning but nobody ever said that I was organized when I was doing this So you should be used to it by now Anyway, so for those of you who haven't gotten open Suza tumbleweed to install and if use it You probably have just kind of seen that it is a very very stable distribution And that has constantly surprised me over the course of the last 200 days because I've never had that experience really before fedora came the closest and Even then I had problems with it right over the course of the time that I use fedora There were problems that popped up the same thing when I was on Redcore for those two months or so and Over the course of me slowly Diverging from a distro hopper into someone who wants to use a distribution that is stable and just works I've found at least so far that open Suza has allowed me to do that the best out of all of them And that is a fantastic experience It's again not something that you would expect on a distribution that is at least in terms of tumbleweed a rolling release If this was leap, I'd understand because that's kind of old and crusty similar to debbie and but this is tumbleweed You'd expect things to break. I've expected things to break constantly every every time I see a 1300 package upgrade which happens often on open Suza I get worried because I expect something there to conflict or for it to delete something that needed to be you know capped or whatever I Expected to fail over and over and over again It has surprised me and just rebooted and I continue on with it just like it never happened and it's awesome The only times I ever have to use a butterfess snapshot rollback or a rollback for a snapshot is When I've done something wrong like I had installed Plasma or I installed hyperland the first time and it didn't go well Or I installed the gnome there for a little while and I wanted to get rid of it and the easiest way to do that with a Snapshot so anytime I've done something really stupid. It's been easy to roll back I've never had to roll back a single page on that because Linux cache I also have an over the up to the store. So that's the last one and again I can't go on enough about how awesome open Suza has been over the course of the last 200 days And I'm sure that I will continue to talk about how good open Suza is as I go forth using it So I'll try not to spam your feeds with how awesome open Suza is, but I will continue to say sticker fanboy open Suza Anyways, that's it for this video if you have thoughts on open Suza You can leave those in the comment section below if you have a favorite distro if you've become a fanboy of a distribution Leave your favorite distribution in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you about that as well You can follow me on master down or Odyssey those links will be in the video description Which is available at shop. The Linux cast at org there You'll find desk mats and hats and hoodies and t-shirts and posters and stickers and all sorts of stuff All that stuff goes directly to help the channel. 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