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Sadly, I’ve been through the PE takeover experience. It wasn’t pleasant and the surviving company bore little resemblance to prior self. The best that can be said for the experience was they gave me a decent buyout. Leap was my main driver for a good number of years though of late Arch in VM has been my daily. I see a migration from SUSE in the near future.

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"Sadly, I’ve been through the PE takeover experience."

Same (more than once)...in both cases there were a few positives and a cavalcade of negatives, with the latter category expanding like a famished amoeba.

I could fix the whole PE realm in one move: require PE firms to operate as fiduciaries, with severe penalties for failure to comply. The whole sector would collapse or stop sucking, and I don't care which happens.

Leap has been announced to be EOL a while ago anyway.

I know. I had considered just going to Tumbleweed. But that's why I tried Arch. And since they extended Leap's EOL for another year, it gave me more time to play around and figure out where I wanted to land.

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