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I don't like Ubuntu because of Snaps and because I never successfully upgraded from one release to the next without having to reinstall. Also, having a bar at the side AND the top is dumb.
I don't like Mint because it's just Ubuntu with even more stuff added.
I don't like OpenSuse because when you install and administer it, you can feel it was made by Germans.
I don't like Manjaro because it's unstable by design due to the dev's lazyness.
I don't like Slackware because it installs 12 different programs for the same purpose but not the ones everyone wants, and throws rocks at you when you try to make it do something it wasn't designed for by its Benevolent Dictator Who Knows Best (like boot from UEFI). Also, all of its users are currently sitting together in an abandoned attic praying to him, with cobwebs hanging from their beards.
Everything made sense but OpenSuse, what up with German made stuff?
Some people don't like things that are well made and organized in a sensible manner?
Like sudo requiring you to use the root password?
Isn't one of the principal reasons sudo exists is so you DONT need to know or use the root password to perform root-level tasks?
It's an idiotic choice on OpenSUSE's part IMO.
As far as I remember, sudo ask for the user password, not the root one.
It is "su -c [some_command]" that ask for the root password.
You can modify the settings to get passwordless sudo.
Of course you can. My point is, it's a ridiculous decision on OpenSUSE's part to ship it this way in the first place.