Version: 15.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-08-16
Votes: 0
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Rock solid OS for what is intended for. However, lacking the ability to play games and do other work outside prodctivity gives this OS a small market compared to others.
Great OS, just lack some programs and features that is available in other Linux OS
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-08-12
Votes: 0
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The Best Operating System for advanced or new linux users .
It has everything in software packages
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 3
Date: 2019-08-10
Votes: 0
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Minimal/online installer threw multiple errors and then crashed before I could even give any input.
The last time I tried it (a couple of months back), it did install, but the YasT control center launched as a blank window. Most of its functionality seems to duplicate tools present elsewhere, but when your distro's literal selling point doesn't reliably work . . .
The concept's nice, at least.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 4
Date: 2019-08-05
Votes: 0
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Had to boot a live DVD to install from as the other DVD installers would not boot at all. Horrible partitioner.
My Brother laser printers worked fine in 42.3 but not at all in 15.1. Without a printer the OS is useless. I will be trying another distro after using openLinux for many years.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 4
Date: 2019-08-03
Votes: 3
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Cons:
- CPU is much hotter and noiser than on Debian-based ones
- CPU on max frequency due to bug present since since verion 42.2
- a complicated partitioner in the installer
- Brave browser cannot be installed, Opera in the a default repsitory but very outdated
Pros:
-stable
- good-looking
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-07-08
Votes: 0
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Lots of Packages - Rolling release - attractive desktops - Strong Package Manager - YasT - not breaks - support offline packages.
Backup / Restore - Option - is not there.
No Timeshift / some good GUI - Backup & Restore -options is there.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-29
Votes: 0
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Works perfectly as a daily driver.
Stable, has many desktop environments including a good KDE implemenation.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-29
Votes: 0
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I distrohop alot but every single time I come back to OpenSUSE, this is hands down the best distro I have ever used.
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Version: 15
Rating: 7
Date: 2019-06-27
Votes: 0
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Cannot do circular browse in Gwenview - have to manually return to first image.
Taking a screenshot - no longer has options to set automatic options, and is overly complex
I used these a lot with 13.1 and they worked as I wanted, now it is a mess.
It seems that although everything works OK, it is suffering from Windoze over-complication and making
it harder for people to do jobs quickly.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-24
Votes: 0
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Stable. Powerful installer and package manager that allow for great flexibility in customizing your setup, while also being easy to use. Good documentation in the form of handbooks. No complaints.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-20
Votes: 0
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Just installed Tumbleweed today with KDE, and as good as it is with KDE, it is just perfect with Awesome WM, both work great.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-17
Votes: 0
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best distro which I had. strongly recommend.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-06-14
Votes: 0
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It runs well from an external USB disk (1TB) to keep original Windows system on laptop hard drive. Also used on a number of smaller USB memory sticks, so I can operate out-side my main system. I have used openSUSE for about 12 years on and off but consistently these last 3 years. YaST is great for a non-programmer, or CLI expert.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-13
Votes: 1
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Best Linux distro for beginners. And good for developers.
Installation process is simple, but functional. oSUSE has a lot of software "from box", you can choose what do you want. Installer setups firewall, applications, users, bootloader, systemd and alot of things.
YaST is a unique setup tool, that can almost anything. Zypper is powerfull pkg manager for oSUSE, that can propose solutions to conflicts.
openSUSE Tubleweed has rolling-release, but it is vey stable. I think, that this distro is more suitable for beginners than others(YaST has GUI for installing pkgs). But for developers in mind the presence of rolling release, it is suitable too. oSUSE use own OBS for building pkgs.
Also, It has great community, that helped me a lot with some cosmetic improvements(plymouth theme) and OBS
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-06-12
Votes: 0
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Very stable distro and close to bleeding edge at the same time. Great distro but sometimes software lacks packages for openSUSE because it is a smaller distro. Should not be a problem though for most users, all the popular software is packaged and available.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-06-12
Votes: 0
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Installation is easy and software management with YaST and/or zypper is both simple and efficient. Great distribution.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-07
Votes: 4
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Works fine, best Distro from now. Tested before: Ubuntu/Debian and Manjaro.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-06-03
Votes: 0
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I had the opensuse leap 15.0 full version with an e gnome environment. System files BtrFS 80 GiB, home Ext4 465 GiB and Swap 8 GiB for home use, www, banks, media, mail. It worked smoothly, lightly, there were no problems, maybe except that the wi-fi twice broke the connection. I updated the system to 15.1 from the network installation. No problems went smoothly. Wi-fi connects at once, the printer also works. The only thing I had to do was re-add the Pacman repository to display movies. This is my first update and I am positively surprised.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 5
Date: 2019-05-27
Votes: 6
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I try version 15.1. Yast has some issues but can be avoided easily. Excellend rendering. Once I have installed, Dolphin crashes sometimes, but kmymoney crashes continuously when it is launched. Both apps where important and belong to KDE. I cannot understand how two apps that work fine in version 15, have these issues in 15,1.
I have tried the live version and both apps work worse.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 4
Date: 2019-05-26
Votes: 0
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Nice hype up to the actual install. Any distro now that does not load wifi out of the box, is sub par, this has been a downfall of SuSe for a number of releases now. If I have to use the terminal to fix it, then it's broke plain and simple. The computer in question is the very popular HP Pavilion, which wifi works on just about every other distro I have installed.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-24
Votes: 10
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In advance: The best current OS one can ever get!
It's really a great work as more if considering what has had to be done to make the last version of SEL a handsome Leap. Me, I have been working with version 15.1 as my main system since later alphas. Thus, I could follow skin-by-skin all those excellent improvements succeeded in by OpenSUSE's maintainers.
In some ways, Leap (much more than Tumbleweed, too) continously shows quite a conservative approach but never meaning this any significant lack of performance in comparison to the other major Linux distros.
On from the hour of setting it up, the offer of options, enhancements and tweaks simply appears magnificent. This, however, is some circumstances among a lot of newbies there might wake fear, but doesn't everybody have to learn many internals within first using any other distribution, too?
In my opinion, one of the very best attributes to all OpenSUSEs is that they never that strongly favour any certain desktop environment or file system as competiting distros commonly do. So me, I exclusively operate any OpenSUSE with XFCE as well as with XFS on all harddisk or SSD partitions (even on root) thus avoiding all troubles well known especially from KDE Plasma and Btrfs. My results are the best imaginable, and the system has become ironlike stable. Further more, I make Leap somewhat more contemporary by, besides (self-understandably) the most valuable multimedia enhancements from Packman, adding some sophisticated repositories of OpenSUSE itself as there are those concerning XFCE and LibreOffice and - most important - the last stable kernel.
Just try it and - please - take the investment of a bit of time ... ; )
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-24
Votes: 4
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I have been using openSUSE since it was called S.u.S.E, I currently use Tumbleweed on both desktop and laptop. It is boring in a good way.
Since about 2002 I have experienced no problems at all, ever, with the following caveat: I abandoned nVidia. I had no need for super advanced graphics and have not noticed the loss if there were one. (Prior to that after an update sound and/or printer might not work. Getting the DVD/CD-ROM drive into user space was a key usability issue)
I often read of "problems with restricted codecs" I have no idea why, enable the community repositories and packman.
Since 2001 I have supported a non-technical friend to use LOTD. I have never quite got to "there you go, bye" as it were. I moved her onto Tumbleweed, got rid of her nVidia card and using the desktop update was great. For about the past 18 months it has stopped working so we're back to me nipping along every now and again to do "zypper dup" but hopefully that will change.
For me post 2002, SUSE has always been solid out of the box. I read benchmarks about how this or that distro is a bit faster but I'm not doing finite element analysis so I do not care.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-23
Votes: 0
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Btrfs/snapper is the killer feature even though I didn't have the need to roll back. Suses automatic testing system seems to make a good job.
Anyway every rolling release distribution should have such a solution on board!
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-23
Votes: 1
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Excellent ever, compatible with the most of old hardware, besides de the new one!
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-21
Votes: 14
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Some people say that openSUSE is a mouse, indeed, there is a layer of meaning. But today's openSUSE is by no means the same as Fedora. Its owner and the same high-quality code as the SUSE Enterprise Edition are time-tested. It can be said that it is an enterprise-level code that is put into use on the desktop. If you use a server, the disadvantage is the support cycle, but if the support cycle is too long, then it is not the same as the enterprise version, how to survive the enterprise system?
To say that there are more exceptions and bugs, it can only be said that because of the frequent update cycle, this is understandable. Enterprise-level distributions such as Redhat / Debian have also experienced major bugs (although not their own problems). Isn't the corporate customer causing significant losses not a mouse?
So, this is a dialectical question. Is it a matter of whether the quality of the distribution is determined by the quality of the distribution or is it determined by the update cycle? I believe that the former is the foundation and the latter does have an impact. I believe that openSUSE is a perfect balancer in this regard (enterprise code quality, 3 years of update support). I am very admired for a distribution with enterprise-level code that can support for 3 years (there is also their own enterprise-level distribution).
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Version: 15
Rating: 6
Date: 2019-05-18
Votes: 0
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Not being able to use some videos and having problems using Lilypond and and very slow transfer to USB flash sticks. I'm quitting this distro.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-05-05
Votes: 38
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Recently I was configuring an openSUSE-based server. Although the related information is less than CentOS and Ubuntu, I finally found out that the information on the openSUSE community website is very detailed. In the process of installing and configuring sshd, VNCserver, Rstudio, Galaxy, some problems occurred, but in the end they were perfectly solved. openSUSE can achieve almost the same level of server configuration as it does in the desktop space. This is one of my favorite distributions.
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-04-25
Votes: 5
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Leap version is great for stability but it is kinda 2nd class citizen compared to Tumleweed. Some wiki guides are Tumbleweed only. Leap is also a headache when you have a optimus laptop (I mean when you want your nVidia GPU to work). I can not stop asking myself why Ubuntu and its derivatives can handle this stuation well and openSUSE can not.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-23
Votes: 9
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openSUSE is stable enough to be a major platform to help me with my daily learning and work tasks. I prefer the Leap version because it is stable. But because the Tumbleweed version has more new features, the Tumbleweed version is also installed with the virtual machine under Leap. The system has the stability of the enterprise version, convenient interaction, simple appearance, a variety of command line and graphical tools can greatly improve my work efficiency.
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-04-23
Votes: 1
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Very usable, YaST is an extremely powerful tool. Works very fast on my machine.
Downsides:
-installing nvidia drivers the hard way is abit of a pain for non-tech-savvy people
-you can break your system with zypper (this is migitated because snapper for btrfs works extremely well for recovery purposes)
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-23
Votes: 4
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Honestly, I have browsed DistroWatch for a while, but never reviewing. I have used distributions such as Arch, Manjaro, Fedora, and Ubuntu. I like tumbleweed the most out of all of them for my programming and gaming device. Zypper is quite useful but the best part of software management is Yast2, which makes it a breeze to install software such as RStudio, which I would run into dozens of errors building via the aur on Arch. The one con I can think of is the fact that I needed to change the network setup method from wicked to NetworkManager, but it was quite easy and simple. I use the KDE Plasma version and find it faster than all of the other Plasma distros I have used (Arch and Fedora).
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-22
Votes: 3
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Not the fastest plasma distribution. After a long search, however, my first choice, as I find a rollback system very important at rolling release.
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Version: 42.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-04-17
Votes: 8
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Is the one I have only used lately for more that 6 years. Excellent quality and easy to use. Well supported by the online comunity. The best I have used so far,
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-12
Votes: 4
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After testing several distros, I end up with this Tumbleweed as my rolling release daily driver distro.
It might not be the best for non linux experienced person, but once you learn the tricks and update it properly it is really hard to beat it.
Very stable, fresh after every update and perfect hardware support.
YaST is lovely and best in class, however, I still prefer Zypper for its power and detail dependency check.
If you need a distro with server functionality while has more updated packages than another stable distro, I highly recommend Leap 15. Rock solid, fresh and backed with Enterprise company. So it is a great learning point for advanced users.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-11
Votes: 2
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Using OS since 2002, wouldn't change. Hit is the comfortable Config-Tool YAST.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-07
Votes: 3
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Always up to date, reliable, perfect for developing and being on the edge of all new version of packages. Complete software availability. Best in class for administration (Yast)
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-04-05
Votes: 5
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Like most, I tried different Linux distributions and I always end up with the same ones. Stability, security and lightness of work, and that gives me two kinds of distributions: stable debian and opensuse leap. I have been using opensuse leap with kde for a year and no problems. They serve me to mail, browse the internet and service the bank.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-28
Votes: 8
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Not a bad OS for beginners that can be great for advanced users as well, which also includes a user-friendly package manager 'zypper' that also handles dependencies intelligently, that means a lot, many package managers are horrible in that regard. Even 'dnf' Fedora's package manager uses ZYpp’s libsolv library for dependency resolution!
zypper also has a graphical package manager, YaST2 which is fantastic.YaST2 is probably the most powerful graphical package management system I have ever used, in that it gives users the greatest number of options, with which to configure their system.
openSUSE has a wonderful community with tons of users ready to lend a hand.
openSUSE is my main OS along with MX Linux as a testbed and it's one of the most stable and gratifying systems to use. I cannot stop recommending it. It's a really fun and interesting OS.
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Version: 15
Rating: 6
Date: 2019-03-27
Votes: 4
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OpenSuse used to be one of the greatest distros.
Nowadays is a shadow of fading glory, split on stable enterprise bound, but fossil Leap and the cutting-edge, but dup&pray Tumbleweed, and nothing between them as the previous releases of OpenSuse used to be.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-03-27
Votes: 2
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Very good, stable and complete, but the installation process might be rather complicated for non experienced Linux users.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-22
Votes: 12
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Perfect system. I use it on my work computer, I use it on my home computer.
YAST is absolutely amazing. When I try different distros I look for something similar, but YAST is number one. From my point of view opensuse works out of box, HW detection is almost perfect too.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-18
Votes: 10
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I jumped into OpenSUSE fairly recently, only about 6 months ago after trying and failing to get many other popular distros to work properly on a MacBook that was given to me. After it booted perfectly and required almost no work to get running beautifully I decided to put it through the paces, and am very impressed with the ease at which it can allow the user to do anything. YaST is amazing, allowing for extremely simple system configuration, speeding up the process of learning how to do typical sysadmin work exponentially. I only had one problem with it so far, on an Nvidia Optimus laptop, where after a dist upgrade I had to manually run mkinitrd to allow Bumblebee to work again. One small hiccup, but the process of setting up bumblebee was also so much easier than it was on Ubuntu so I cannot really discount it from that.
Vs my longer experience on Ubuntu, light experience on Fedora, and now 6 months with almost all of my systems on OpenSUSE, there is nothing that I have ran across that OpenSUSE didn't do easier or faster. It has amazing documentation when I run across things that I am unfamiliar with, and just makes the whole computing experience seem better because of the simplicity.
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Version: 15
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-03-18
Votes: 1
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Few days ago i wrote that SUSE 15 is fast system. However, today i had to install ROSA 10 on the same Virtualbox machine. It was running much much faster than SUSE 15. Two years ago they were nearly equal at speed when the SUSE version was Leap 42..
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-16
Votes: 3
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Have been using openSUSE for several years and I still the best all-rounder system out there, especially if you want to have access to the most recent libraries and tools as soon as they are available, without compromising stability.
There might be better distros for a particular task, but openSUSE ticks all the boxes. I have tried some other popular distros, e.g. Fedora, but I'm always feeling there's something missing.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-13
Votes: 10
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I have been using openSUSE 12, Leap 42.1, Leap42.3 and now Leap 15. Very satisfied from the last package. Extremely easy to work with it. Offers a lot of possibilities for easy setting of the system. I work with Bulgarian locale and with Leap 15 I have spell check in each application under KDE Plasma.
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Version: 42.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-12
Votes: 9
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I installed Linux the first time 15years ago (Debian with a book). And now I ended up with OpenSuse since 2015. Before I tried Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Lubuntu but I'm now really happy with OpenSuse.
I dont know anything about special programs and I'm just a normal desktop user. For me everything with OpenSuse is easy and fast!!!. The community is great specialle forums and other websites. I'm working with kmail. It's not easy but now I 'm really satisfied.
Steam is working perfect. Printers is not at all a problem (I allways use HP-Printers).
I dont know any rease to have a nother distro or even windows.
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Version: 15
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-03-08
Votes: 0
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Good fast and stable system. That is however my second choice after ROSA. In both evaluated KDE Plasma. The reason is that SUSE is a HDD space eater. If you have large HDD it may not be a problem, but a small root partition you run on problems. On VirtualBox i installed it on 25GB HDD and left the default partitioning that resulted in 11 GB root partition. After installation and update the free space there was only 769MB. The reason is the snapper. It backups files every time the system is changed. E.g. the removal of the ksudoku that is 3M in size costs you 120MB free space! The first update after installation costs 2.5GB.
The solution of this problem is there https://syang.io/2017/01/16/Fix-Space-Problem.html but i still find this backup a bit paranoiac. That was in Leap 43.x two years ago and continues now in 15.
The second problem i have with SUSE are the YAST conflict messages. I remove simple programs like kreversi and ksudoku and every time i get conflict message with 3 choices. Does it make sense?
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-06
Votes: 16
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To know if it’s fun, try it out.
The rigorous and interesting programmers are really amazing. Obviously, stability and ease of use are considered the most important. In the case of timely update of the software source, it is very remarkable to maintain such stability. This is why I gave up using CentOS.
Even for Windows, my requirements for stability are always first. So I only choose between openSUSE, CentOS (too old), Debian (don't like deb). After getting used to zypper, openSUSE really didn't disappoint me.
Have a lot of fun !
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-06
Votes: 9
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Always accustomed to the distrobutions of the rpm series, only consider openSUSE and CentOS. The community foundation of openSUSE is really amazing, and the system is performing very well. The experience under KDE is great, not only good-looking, but also very practical, and it is very compatible with most Linux software. AppImage software has been very convenient in the past two years, and openSUSE support for APPImage is also very good.
The openSUSE-adjusted KDE is very efficient, and the intuitive and efficient design makes it very easy to use. The only downside is that the occupancy rate is a bit high, but this is a must for unified background scheduling.
Always, it's worth learning, openSUSE is a very good release.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-06
Votes: 2
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My personal work mainly requires two languages, Perl and R. OpenSUSE supports both languages very well. Perl is pre-installed with the system, and it is easy to install R-base from Yast or with the zypper command, and various related packages can be easily installed.
In addition, the basic office and entertainment can also be very good support, I like both KDE and Gnome, very complete linux desktop environment, a lot of useful tools.
The perfect release also requires patience to experience, openSUSE can support your work well.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-03-06
Votes: 4
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Zypper is the second package management tool I use. I feel that I can implement a lot of functions and it is very convenient to use. Compared to apt-get and yum, tapping zypper on the keyboard is more convenient (perhaps personal). Yast under the command line interface is also very easy to use. For users who do not have a graphical interface installed, the system can be configured efficiently and is very friendly to ordinary users.
openSUSE's support for systemd is also very good. Some time ago, the news said that systemd has a vulnerability, and a large number of related distributions have been affected. Only openSUSE/SUSE and Fedora survived.
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Version: 15
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-03-04
Votes: 0
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Good but iso size is very large as compared to other linux systems and also YaST2 is difficult to install
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Version: 15
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-02-25
Votes: 1
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Terrible distro ... really!!!
Always some problems with printer config and samba, important apps missing at base repos (apps from community repos are sometimes very unstable or fully non-functional or impossible to install by dependence conflicts).
I really do not understand how to use this distro on daily base without endless repairing and fixing.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-24
Votes: 82
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Stable, beautiful and easy to configure.
These tools are very useful for office workers and developers: Libre Office, WPS Office, Sogou InputMethod, GoldenDict, Git, Konsole, Kate, VS Code.
For multimedia decoders, one-click installation is very easy to use.
Zypper as a backend and Yast as a front end have made a huge contribution to this.
Thanks to the generous contribution from the openSUSE community.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-18
Votes: 27
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Stable as a debian or better, light and fast - the opposite of ubuntu and the most recent additions with a wide choice. Easy to install and use. What more could you want.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-02-16
Votes: 39
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This is a very rare excellent Linux distribution. It absorbs the advantages of each family and strives to improve its quality and stability. Maintain a modest attitude in front of its users.
Its strength lies in the unique Yast tool and its zypper backend. In addition, the depth of the server field for many years makes the stability of the suse family outstanding. After the release of openSUSE, its efforts on the desktop platform have also been very good, once known as the most beautiful release. KDE and Gnome are mainstream desktop environments, and openSUSE is well-matched with them.
Some friends use live media to install openSUSE and evaluate, and that is very unprofessional. The official openSUSE website prompts users that live media is only used for the most basic layout experience, not recommended for system installation, because many libraries and components are missing.
If you want to experience its power, you can experience it on a physical machine or virtual machine. But be sure to use the full iso media and test your needs carefully.
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-02-11
Votes: 3
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My distro hopping journey always end up with this distro.
Pros:
-More stable than previous Leap versions and many other Linux distros.
-Zypper and Yast are great tools.
-Built-in (enabled as default) Snapper helps you to rollback system when you mess something up.
Cons:
-Seriously big ISO file. One of priorities of developers should be reducing the size of ISO file. Minimal installation would be great.
-Downloading updates is somehow slow.
-Does not offer an out of the box experience like Linux Mint or xUbuntu does. Not a big problem if you have enough knowledge of Linux.
-Kwin crashes after quitting some full screen games.
-Cancerous and useless/not working guide for Bumblebee setup.
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Version: 42.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-02-07
Votes: 2
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Very satisfied of Leap 42.3 - over one year already using it. Before that I worked with Leap 42.2, Manjaro, Mint. Most happy with 42.3.
Pros:
Very customizable.
Nice look.
Full set of features.
Easy installations and control through Yast.
Cons:
I use Plasma 5 desktop. With Kmail I experience some blocks of the system, may be due to a modest hardware.
Over all openSUSE is great.
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-31
Votes: 12
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Been using this for more than 6 months!!! Amazing, secure, stable!! Love IT
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-26
Votes: 13
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rock solid stable, fast, secure. Incredibly well polished.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-26
Votes: 8
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Very stable, great tools, easily customized, quickly patched/secure.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-01-19
Votes: 0
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It's a totally unpolished distro.
I tried the th snapshot from 15.01.2019, KDE live image and it the screen flashes all the time.
I hardly managed to turn off my 3-year old laptop.
This is, for sure, not a system for a home use.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-17
Votes: 11
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10 years using Linux, distro hopping from time to time just to find myself back to openSUSE.
Pro:
Zypper is a great, modern package manager. Its syntax is well designed.
Lots of official package, and even more of community package.
yast is godsend. I can get away spending time learning lots of advanced stuff that I don't use everyday. And all configs it generated are sane.
KDE Plasma is well polished, even more than KDE Neon.
Very stable rolling distro. Unlike Arch, rolling updates are no on bleeding edge. Packages are reasonably tested. In 6 years, never once I had broken things as direct result from snapshot update.
Good community. openSUSE is one of rare distro community that is not populated by toxic, elitist community.
Con:
Package decision is leaning to completeness by default. Instead of providing full features by default, I think there should be an option enabled by default to ask and offer extra feature.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-16
Votes: 5
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Been using tumbleweed with my obssesive tinkering and daily installling and uninstalling packages as a new user for the past 3 months.
My Highly Subjective opinions:
-Their imlementation of BTRFS works pretty well and has been interesting to learn about
-installation was well documented and rather quick
- Website is organized very well buuuuut I can see that there are huge changes with direction of Opensuse as a distro (factory to Tumbleweed) that is hard to find a timeline of from 2017-2018 and many of their wiki docs are a tad old when it comes to my experience as a NEWB to (all) linux jumping to the deep end of rolling release world... You can find more activity being TALKED about in smaller infrastructure distros but when they do suddenly show up in Opensuse, so far it all has just worked...
-learning to use zypper and YAST as software management is really rewarding and learning curve for me was similar to the other long-running top Distros, it's not as well youtubed about as say Arcolinux or MX or Ubuntu (my favorite limited source of fun linux updates) BUT it is very simple to understand from just one google search or man page search online
Overall, I'm impressed with how this distro finds the sweet spot between running a stable rolling release infrastructure backing the Wayland Gnome DE Ive been using, accessibility to new FOSS software through official repo and other sources (git, non-OSS, flatpaks) and software dependency management (I use an old thinkpad with 40gig ssd and I have been trying and uninstalling and tweaking with OCD and I have yet to fully bork this as a newb as bad as I often do with other bare metal installs of: elementary OS, Deepin, Ubuntu, Manjaro, or
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Version: 15
Rating: 3
Date: 2019-01-15
Votes: 0
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Installed Ver. 15 and MATE on my test box which took almost an hour. OpenSuse would not read my flash drive folders correctly. I had exactly the same problem with PCLinuxOS MATE. Several of the folders were "unreadable" or lacked the correct "permissions". I have never had this problem with a flash drive with any of dozens of distros I have tried in the past 12 years. It is rather obvious that OpenSuse is no longer the great distro it was last with Ver. 11.4 from 2011. It has been mostly downhill since then, as with many other distros. Very sad.
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Version: 42.3
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-13
Votes: 6
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I recently installed openSUSE with KDE and I am impressed. Even though i'm not distrohopping for a lot time and don't have experience with many other distros (my other distros were ubuntu and debian), I am sure I will stay here for a long time.
PROS:
The desktop environment is just wonderful. They have added many functions and customised it to look very good. It's light, fast and beautiful.
Also It is Mountain-stable (i mean rock-stable, but much better). It's amazing how many tests they are doing before releasing their versions.
Another "pro" is their try to make SUSE more widespread. They have made youtube music parody in which they have put a LOT of effort and I really appreciate that. Also they have made the installation process quite easy and, unlike some other distros, it doesn't lose it's eye candy after installation.
Last but not least is that they combine eye-candy and functionality so well. It is so beautiful, yet no functions are lost!! I am just impressed!
CONS:
To be honest I don't use this distro for so much time and I haven't seen any con till now.
CONCLUSION:
If I were you I would definitely give this distro a try. I am sure you will like it!
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-13
Votes: 0
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It's been a few years since using openSUSE and I am very surprised at how well it runs. The software manager no longer takes ages to load, overall system performance is very smooth and speedy. The installation completed without any issues, but updates broke my graphics requiring me to login using icewm instead of Plasma to add NVIDIA repo and download driver. openSUSE has an reasonable selection of software that is not far from current releases on the applications I use.
After a few tweaks here and there I am feeling right at home and am intrigued enough to give it a fair chance as my main distro once again.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-12
Votes: 0
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What a wonderful Distro! Stable, beautiful and safe ... and YAST!
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-11
Votes: 8
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I've really come to love openSUSE. I messed around in Debian, Ubuntu, and various Arch derivatives (Antergos, Manjaro, etc.) for some time - mostly in i3, bspwm. I grew tired of constantly attempting to fix some random bug that suddenly popped up on my machine and decided to give Tumbleweed a chance after learning about SUSE's rather extensive and impressive testing process. I've been amazed how stable it is. Sometimes its a bit more bleeding edge than Arch with certain packages...that's unbelievable, and yet they make it happen. I personally had no issues out of the box (Thinkpad T450, Dell Optiplex, Dell PowerEdge R710) and I've had very few package issues like many claim (to be fair, Debian tends to get a lot of attention).
I've heard horror stories about YaST. I hear improves were made at some point, and I think they must have resolved many of the issues. I've had no issues with it...and you can simply not use it if you choose. But it's quite helpful at times when you just don't have time to tinker and you just need to get some work done.
Most importantly, I've come to love the community. They'll often say that they're a community that happens to release a distribution. I believe it. It's extremely helpful, friendly, and mature. It's a bunch of nerds who have jobs and actually need to get the occasional thing done, and they've avoided the elitist streak I had a difficult time with in the Arch community.
I highly recommend openSUSE to anyone curious enough to give it a shot. I don't think you'll regret it.
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-01-10
Votes: 3
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Other distros rise and fall in popularity but openSuse is always a solid choice. I had some issues with 42.3 but Leap has been great so far to a point of being boring (as someone else mentioned). I use it both at home and at work.
Yast and zypper are fantastic for system management and I think they beat other package managers handily.
For gaming, steam works great as do third party drivers like nvidia.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-09
Votes: 0
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I've been using opensuse for 11 years for desktop and server purposes. Many times I was annoyed and I decided to replace it. I tried UBUNTU, DEBIAN, FEDORA and MANJARO. After a short while I returned.
I think after a few years of inexperience they are finally on the right track again. "Leap" is proven by many.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-01-02
Votes: 16
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In one word: running openSUSE Leap 15 KDE edition has been uneventful, boring even, in the best sense: everything works, or can be installed and be made to work with minimal effort.
In contrast to most of the comments here that are written from a programmer / software aficionado perspective, I want to underscore how useful openSUSE is for academic work in the humanities, where one needs good support for different languages and keyboards (not unusual that a single document contains English, Dutch, German, French, as well as some Latin and ancient Greek). Adding languages to openSUSE is a breeze, ticking a few boxes for support for secondary languages, and all the necessary packages are installed, including additional fonts. (Compare that to an Arch-based distro such as Antergos, where you have to hunt down the relevant hunspell, mythes etc. packages.).
To my mind, for a professional, academic use case, Leap KDE is up there together with Fedora’s Gnome edition; the strong support of a company shows in both distributions. I have got to the point where I don’t have a copy of Windows installed any more. In its 6 series editions, the included LibreOffice is truly a Microsoft Office replacement; also the integration of flatpaks in Leap is excellent. A minimal setup and programs such as spotify simply work. The connection between mobile phone and computer via KDE Connect (on Gnome, GSConnect) works like a charm.
In short, openSUSE provides a desktop operating system that simply works and gets out of one’s way: the foundation is there, almost all the necessary programs come pre-installed out of the box; the user’s focus can be on productive work rather than on playing around with installing and uninstalling packages. I can hardly recommend it enough; the whole operating system oozes quality. Nothing against Windows 10, which is really quite all right, but openSUSE is in a different league. Amazing that such quality is available as open source software and for free.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-12-27
Votes: 11
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With openSUSE Leap 15, its a much better distro know, in fact one of the bests. I did experience Nvidia driver bugs in 42.x but with leap 15 everything is fine !
As i create some RPM packages sometimes packages on other distros do conflict with my packages, but with openSUSE (Yast or Zypper) both have ability to a vendor change, zypper dup or using Yast, which helps me to quickly change the vendor to my packages and put everything in there, also open build service helps me to maintain it. With other distros it gives me an error something like "packagename cannot be installed" because it maybe installed by different vendor and i have to do it manually. All my softwares are working fine too, in a good stable environment.
OpenSUSE by far is one of the best Linux Distros out there, and the best distro for me.
I use Unreal Engine, Android Studio, Visual Studio, Autodesk Maya, Davinci resolve for my production, and OpenSUSE run everything fine with default instructions, also snaps and flatpaks both are available. Davinci resolve provide RPM package which works great with openSUSE.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-12-26
Votes: 5
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I have been using linux for 14 years, have been using many distros, but last ~4 years i'm on openSUSE and it is the best distro for me.
I'm a SW engineer and I'm a bit more skilled than average person on linux, but still, after many years of configs I want my desktop to just work and openSUSE gives me that + many more.
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-12-12
Votes: 16
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I recently purchased an HP laptop with windows 10. Installation of Linux Mint 18.1 went smoothly in a dual boot setup, but when I rebooted, the laptop went straight to windows as grub was not recognized. I reinstalled several times with secure boot on/off and with 2 different downloads, Cinnamon then XFCE with the same results. As a long time debian/ubuntu and their derivatives user I then decided to try something completely different and give openSUSE Leap 15 a try with KDE Plasma. I have been blown away by how everything worked right out of the box, all the shortcut keys, a bluetooth speaker & WiFi. It is snappy and rock solid.I then installed openSUSE Leap 15 on my desktop with the same outstanding results.There are a few little tricks to learn like activating the pacman repository in order to get the needed CODECS and other software, but once you read the excellent documentation and figure out the small quirks (as compared to ubuntu) this distro is hard to beat. The only thing stopping me from giving it a 10 is the long boot times. Not really a problem, but needs improvement. Other then that I am a happy camper.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-12-10
Votes: 10
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Tumbleweed is one of my 'always installed' distros. It has given me little trouble even though I'm an 85 y.o. amateur user. I was surprised at Jesse's multimedia problems as I've always found that this can be sorted fairly easily with the Pakman community repository. Although I agree it's not a distro for a beginner, I wouldn't consider it a difficult one for anybody with a bit of linux experience.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-12-10
Votes: 2
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I'm very happy with my Tumbleweed.
Runs very stable for a rolling release.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 7
Date: 2018-12-10
Votes: 1
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I've tried Tumbleweed for both server and desktop, also played around with the transactional server which is pretty great in theory. But the amount of updates and distro updates is just overwhelming and even though snapper makes it super easy to roll back to previous state it creates nervousness. It's not for me, but I understand how people can like it as you always get the new stuff before everyone else and can play around and test it. It's also very good for developers wanting to try how their stuff works on the latest versions of different server software.
Also, in my opinion, the best place to get media codecs is here:
https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-suse.html
It just works!
I instead recommend OpenSUSE Leap for almost everyone from absolute beginners to experts. It's stable and there's tons of software in different versions to find here if the default version is too stable/old for your taste:
https://software.opensuse.org/find
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-12-04
Votes: 15
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I have never considered Opensuse, just gave a try many years ago, but never attractive to me, don't really know why..
Since 2000 I have been around with most any distro out there, lately more frequent with Centos and Debian. Having to support many friends who use linux in offices and enterprises, I had to keep a standard to refer and both above distro were running very good a part some issues with multimedia plugin and extra repos to manage.
OpenSuse has been a amazing surprise, only installed in 3 pc since couple of weeks however it seems to have great stability and right balance between automatisms and traditional linux feel. Just love it!
I may have found what I was looking for :-)
Ciao
Ema
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-11-30
Votes: 13
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Stable, up to date, flexible, professional and sucure: OpenSuse Leap seems to be the best Linux distribution currently available.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-11-27
Votes: 10
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after trying the impossible on my notebook acer with only 2 GB of RAM and an Intel Duo 2.2 GHZ, I tried to install LEAP with extraordinary results, fast, beautiful graphically and 'full of free apps. I really recommend OpenSuse to all those who want to enter the Linux world.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-11-15
Votes: 7
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Recently installed this, my most recent encounter with Suse, given that I was fiddling with them years ago too. Back when I went over the border to Washington state to buy (yes . . .) a copy of early Suse in a box, when you got a little metal Suse badge for your computer, or car, . . .
And I've done Leap 42.x since.
This Leap 15 installed without issue on my 2009 Lenovo Thinkpad T500, Intel T9600 processor, 8 GB RAM.
And it's great - it's just working flawlessly so far. These are early days, but it boots fully in about 100 seconds, and everything is running very nicely and as fast as this older hardware can manage, which is very acceptable as my second machine.
The package management is great, and Gnome is an old friend, looking forward to switching to KDE/Plasma next. No lack of applications in the standard release, so far.
Back to learning more Linux on this very stable and reasonably fast distro; given that OpenSuse doesn't call itself a light install, I'd say that this is certainly working faster than I thought it would.
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Version: 15
Rating: 5
Date: 2018-11-15
Votes: 1
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I have had difficulty with Leap 15.1. Firewall rules have changed in Yast. Setting up samba drives and printers did not work correctly. Plus setting up Samba under Yast changes firewall to disable ports.
I Tried using KVM virtual machines with no success. Actually has to reinstall the os I had caused something to keep crashing and couldn't find any information on where vms were stored or how to delete them.
Laptop crashes after a while while desktop crashes less often. This is unacceptable and I will probably never upgrade to 15 from 42.3. Glad I tried this before my Leap 42.3 machine needs to be updated. Looking for something else.
Leap 15.1 install is troubling. Had to manually assign drives in order to override all of the existing os. That always takes me a while as I only upgrade when I have too. So every two years I have to go through all of this again.
Still a lot of work to get video running. Did not have issues with wifi or Ethernet. A lot of the applications I use are available for Leap 15.1 though not all of them and many of them are old. Old versions are problematic when you are looking up how to do something and then you find out your version does not support that.
Leap 42.3 was much better. Yast in 42.3 worked much better. Not a fan of changes. Half hearted changes that are incomplete are not what I am looking for.
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-11-15
Votes: 2
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Solid, stable, up to date, professional: very good LTS OS.
Highly recommended.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-11-07
Votes: 0
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Fine distro.
Pros:
1. Comes in two editions: the regular release Leap edition and the rolling release Tumbleweed edition.
2. A simple and easy to use graphical system configuration and package management front-end and system installer, YaST.
3. openSUSE Build Service (OBS) treats it as a first-class citizen, meaning repos for it tend to get updated the fastest. The OBS provide users a way of building and distributing their own packages (for a variety of distros) for free.
4. If OBS repositories are included the number of packages available for it is quite significant.
5. Experimental repositories providing, among other things, the latest Firefox and developmental releases of GNOME and KDE are available.
Cons:
1 On my newer PCs getting IPv4 sites to work (IPv6-compatible sites like Facebook work fine, out-of-the-box (OFTB)) can take some fiddling with YaST, which is more effort than it takes with Arch, Fedora and Void.
2. ZYpp is a slow package manager, largely because package downloads can take a while and the terrible thing is that ZYpp cannot downloaded multiple packages at a time, unlike APT and DNF.
3. DVD install media are larger than most distro's install media. You can use a smaller net install iamge, but this means your system's packages will need to be downloaded, which can get tedious, per con (2).
4. YaST doesn't give you a lot of options to customize what packages come pre-installed on openSUSE. You're given a choice of desktop, but not much choice beyond that. It is also quite slow at installing the system, even when the DVD medium is used.
5. Strict on open-source, so if you need OFTB support for graphics cards and WiFi chips that need proprietary drivers you will not be in luck. That being said there are third-party repositories that provide these, but still this can get complicated when you rely on the WiFi chip for your internet connection.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-31
Votes: 21
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OpenSUSE is a Professional Distro!
Very well done, the repos is very easy to add packman and Nvidia etc etc
Great tool YAST
10/10
ThankYou!
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-31
Votes: 1
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An elegant, fast, stable and secure system.
After installation, you need to familiarize yourself with Yast.
1.Aktualizacja,
2. Adding the Packman repository.
3. Management software-repositories-packman repository- switch system packages.
4. Adding media codecs 4. In the terminal as root: zipper ref, zipper update and use at will.
There is no system where everything works as it should. There are always problems. In my experience, the opesuse leap deserves 10
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Version: 15
Rating: 3
Date: 2018-10-30
Votes: 1
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I have been a long-time though not very intensive SuSe user. All my previous versions have been very stable and I like YaST, because command line was ok when I started with Xenix in 1986, but it is no longer acceptable tody in my view.
However, this openSuSe Leap 15 is extremely disapointing and I found several bugs especially in conjunction with VNC. VNC does NOT WORK with the standard sddm display manager and KDE. But this is extremely well hidden in a phrase, which does not clearly say this or warn a user how to properly use it
I have spend about 5 x 12 hrs searching on forums and docs for a solution but there seems to be none. I found one patch but it does not help either.
Further on: They change many many things but only partially. For example: I changed the default desplay manager in YaST sysconfig to lightdm but nothing changed after rebooting, there was still sddm.
They have a tiny little well-hidden note saying that from Leap 15 on this cannot be done in YaST or sysconfig but in a much more complicated way. BUT they LEFT YaST without any info or warning.
I feel betrayed by such user unfriedly changes and missing clear docs!
The remote installation did not work either. I brought the installer to crash five times at different occaisions.
The partitioner crashed repeatedly when I was mounting additional disks and it crashed the entire installation. All was freezing. After the 4th install I mounted the disks via command line and this went well.
There are lots of more annoying details and bugs etc.
This is the by far most immature, most buggy and disappointing SuSe release I have ever come about.
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Version: 42.3
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-10-30
Votes: 0
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I have been very happy with SuSE over the years compared to other distros. I have been a fan since the late '90s. However, that doesn't mean they haven't made mistakes. Currently I am running several instances of 42.3 and an installation of Leap. The Leap/v15 changes from about a year ago has caused some great incompatibility in libraries. I'm hoping things will be a bit more settled in 15.1.
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Version: 15
Rating: 3
Date: 2018-10-29
Votes: 0
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I have been a long-time though not very intensive SuSe user. All my previous versions have been very stable and I like YaST, because command line was ok when I started with Xenix in 1986, but it is no longer acceptable tody in my view.
However, this openSuSe Leap 15 is extremely disapointing and I found several bugs especially in conjunction with VNC. VNC does NOT WORK with the standard sddm display manager and KDE. But this is extremely well hidden in a phrase, which does not clearly say this or warn a user how to properly use it
I have spend about 5 x 12 hrs searching on forums and docs for a solution but there seems to be none. I found one patch but it does not help either.
Further on: They change many many things but only partially. For example: I changed the default desplay manager in YaST sysconfig to lightdm but nothing changed after rebooting, there was still sddm.
They have a tiny little well-hidden note saying that from Leap 15 on this cannot be done in YaST or sysconfig but in a much more complicated way. BUT they LEFT YaST without any info or warning.
I feel betrayed by such user unfriedly changes and missing clear docs!
The remote installation did not work either. I brought the installer to crash five times at different occaisions.
The partitioner crashed repeatedly when I was mounting additional disks and it crashed the entire installation. All was freezing. After the 4th install I mounted the disks via command line and this went well.
There are lots of more annoying details and bugs etc.
This is the by far most immature, most buggy and disappointing SuSe release I have ever come about.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-19
Votes: 7
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Very happy with OpenSuse Leap 15.
I've been using the *buntus and their derivatives for the last few years but recently encountered a problem during installation at the bootloader stage. That is to say, I could install eg, Linux Mint through the BIOS/MBR route but not UEFI/GPT. Not sure why that is and I'm still figuring it out but that's another story. Suffice to say I needed something to continue working - software development - and that's what led me to Suse.
This is a great distro. I suppose it's not as user friendly as some distros - we'll call it "intermediate" (some Linux knowledge would be helpful) - but it's not compiling Gentoo from source! The Gnome desktop seems less resource intensive than I remember. Yast is still very good for package management but I was surprised to see I could use apt from the command line. That was a happy accident (I like apt): after I installed the OS I instinctively opened a terminal, typed sudo apt update etc, and off it went. A few minutes later I thought, 'Hey shouldn't that be zypper?!' Proof as if you needed it that all things Linux are in a constant state of flux. Happy days, though.
I'm not sure what else to add here. If you're using Leap 15 then you probably have some idea of what it's all about. If you're reading this and wondering 'should I bother?' well my answer would be yes. it's very polished, stable, has a great selection of software available, and chugs along happily on a laptop with:
2GHz dual core processor, 4Gb ram, 1Tb hard-drive, constant, constant usage...
I opted for the Gnome desktop option because, get this, my 14yr old daughter says KDE sucks :)
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-15
Votes: 10
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My system: Desktop: Xfce 4.12.4 Distro: openSUSE Leap 15.0
SAMSUNG product: 300E4C / 300E5C / 300E7C v: 0.1 serial: N / A
Graphics: Card-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller
Card-2: NVIDIA GF117M [GeForce 610M / 710M / 810M / 820M / GT 620M / 625M / 630M / 720M]
I fully subscribe to the evaluation of September 29, 2018 regarding version 15.
As for the codecs, you have to add the Packman repo and turn it on to install the codecs for displaying movies. No movie player works (compare to Debian stable there works at startup but again you have to work with gmtp so that you can rip files from your mobile phone )
As for printers, there are problems in every system, even on windows. And strangely, my Laserjet P1102w Laserjet Hewlett Packard was installed the first time without a problem, which rarely happens. Currently, I do not see other systems except Debian and OpenSuse Leap.
Both very stable, fast and secure.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-10-08
Votes: 2
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Very stable GNOME desktop. I use it for samba development.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 5
Date: 2018-10-08
Votes: 0
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Nice version for experimenting and see what's new or developing.
However, probably due to "Cutting Edge" updates, the system is not stable enough for daily use.
One could work around this by not installing every update by default.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-09-29
Votes: 54
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Its been an excellent experience so far but this is not a newbie friendly distro. The installer is excellent but Calamares would be a better option for inexperienced users, but for me it was an excellent tool. The install went fine but the issue for many, will be the codecs that are missing to play videos/multimedia. You end up having to install the Packman repos which is documented in the guide to Leap http://opensuse-guide.org/codecs.php but its not that easy for newbies who dont understand it completely.
The desktop experience is excellent, very fast and low resource usage at 432mbs at GUI. The feature to enable repos during install was great but once I got into the actual install it appears some werent enabled so be sure to check. Included apps are fine and didnt have to add many to fit my needs. If Yast seems a bit daunting for updates, Discover is included for newer users.
This is a distro that requires some experience to use but if you want to do a bit of research and use it as your first learning experience, it offers you a chance to understand more about Linux.
No issues with hardware except the printer, as the printer setting and HP device manager wouldnt work and had to install the HP printer with Yast. Installed driver HPLIP, then click auto configuration under printer in Yast and its installed. Wifi is Broadcom and was seen with no issues.
Gave it a ten because its a great distro for experienced users and definitely worth a look.
I used the KDE Plasma version which is really nice for Windows crossover users.
Works great on older hardware as I run a Dell E6400 laptop with E series dock.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-09-22
Votes: 6
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I used Fedora for almost 2 years on my business laptop. After an upgrade from Fedora 27 to 28 it finally rendered unusable, crashing Gnome Shell, freezing after suddenly the RAM was completely filled up although not running too many heavy things - very annoying.
At that time Leap 15 was not yet released and I wanted a stable system for business use instead of Tumbleweed - although it ran great on a few systems I had it installed on.
So I nonetheless opted rather for the Leap 15 beta instead of anything else and was surprised by it's stability and how polished it was even though being still in beta. So I kept it, still have it installed and it's still running rock solid even though I started with the beta.
Sure, openSUSE is not perfect. There are a few shortcomings as well:
- installing a printer which was easily installed on Fedora 27 Gnome became a real hassle, I still have not figured out what the problem is and not yet got it installed
- the update utility sometimes tries to refresh the package repositories before a network connection is established which results in an error message, not a problem but annoying
Although the above mentioned annoyances do exist, the bistro itself is the best bistro I have used so far - and I tested and used a whole lot of distros. If you need and want a stable distro with quite up to date packages and software that looks beautiful and integrates the KDE Plasma desktop better than any other distro: openSUSE Leap 15 might be as well your primary choice!
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Version: 15
Rating: 9
Date: 2018-09-20
Votes: 2
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I'm surprised how well openSUSE Leap (XFCE) works on my older hardware. It is stable, fast, polished and up to date. After initial configuration, everything works just fine.Running SUSE for the first time, I have still to explore it. Maybe I will put it on my new laptop and try the KDE version.
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Version: 42.3
Rating: 2
Date: 2018-09-12
Votes: 0
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cons:
- no codecs
- difficult installer
- cpu on turbo mode
- no Broadcom driver for vanilla kernel
- too big iso image
pros:
- fast and good-looking plasma
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-09-11
Votes: 3
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Since Tubleweed became more and more reliable this year, OpenSuse is on it's best way to reconquer lost market shares.
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Version: 15
Rating: 10
Date: 2018-08-25
Votes: 14
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Very Very STABLE running on my HP probook. I like both KDE and Gnome, while lxqt, openbox, windowmaker are also run well.
For my usual work, I can install all softwares I need on it. YaST is so handful.
openSUSE is just like a friend of a newer, I love the feeling.
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