openSUSE Tumbleweed Part 3.5 / Manjaro Linux Part 2.5

With my Manjaro Linux post, I got a comment on Google+ (because I have blogger set up to post the blog entry to G+ once it's posted) asking why I didn't try openSUSE Tumbleweed. I explained to him breifly of the issues I had before and told him that I will give Tumblweeed another try since it's been quite a few months when I last tried it.

At this moment I already have downloaded and burned the Live GNOME Tumbleweed (x86_64) to a DVD+RW and plan on doing a test install on Triela's testbed partition tomorrow after work.

I'm thinking that the VLC codecs are going to be a problem again, but it is part of my test procedures, so we will see what happens.

If the test's successful, will I move to Tumbleweed from Manjaro? As much as I would like to, I'll probably be sticking with Manjaro because of the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR), which allows me to build FreeFileSync, Skype, and Atom (text editor) from source. With Tumbleweed (and even openSUSE), they would be .rpm files I'd have to download and "install" - with the exception of FreeFileSync, as it's able to run on it's own without installation.

So even though I'm quite set on Manjaro, I will keep my word and try Tumbleweed out.

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One thing that I forgot to mention with my previous post is that I've gotten quite used to pacman and yaourt in terminal, confirming my theory that learning pacman would be fairly easy to learn since it's similar to zypper (yaourt works the same as pacman, but it's for building packages from the AUR).