Version: 15.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-01-11
Votes: 8
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openSUSE is absolutely stable and offers a great integration of KDE. It is easy to use, has clean updates and YaST is a great configuration tool.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2020-01-07
Votes: 4
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Upgraded the last of my computers from 15.0 to 15.1 just by changing repositories without issues. Important: Never use the nouveau driver on NVIDIA graphics.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2020-01-06
Votes: 5
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I tried quite a few Linux distributions with my Intel NUC7 hardware (Intel Gemini Lake, with Intel and Realtek chips) and by far openSUSE was the least troublesome to install. Peripherals which required endless tweaks (e.g. wireless, SD card reader or even just correct display) with other distros, worked first go with openSUSE 15.1.
The only slight negative is that it can occasionally feel a bit sluggish but not disastrously so and it only becomes apparent if you jump on openSUSE immediately after using some of the small, speed optimised distros an equivalent hardware.
I'm not a Linux developer but I started using Linux back in the 90's (yes, I have a grey beard, he-he), labouriously loading Linux from a large pile of floppies (it was Slackware zero point ninety-something). After a long journey, openSUSE is my current favourite large distro. It has an established track record of stability and functionality and any quirks that I came across, I can live with and there is so much doco and a large user base, that I never got stuck permanently on any problems. Also, important for most of us, I prefer the look and feel and structuring compared to say, Ubuntu or Red Hat but I realise that's subjective and you may feel differently..
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2020-01-05
Votes: 0
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Opensuse Linux 15.1 installed with errors on my Asus Desktop which has 8GB or Ram. It failed to boot up into the KDE and provided a lacklustre conclusion to a very poor experience with Linux 15.0.
zypper dup transformed into zypper fail.
I am not a computer scientist; I am just an ordinary householder who has read a great deal about the superiority of Linux over windows. I have never seen any real evidence of this. Everything is just too complex and when things do work, they are not a patch on Microsoft Windows performance.
I removed the broken Opensuse Leap 15.1 from my desktop computer and reinstalled Windows 10. things just work. I cannot say that about Opensuse Leap 15.1.
Conclusion: a regrettable experience that I shall not be repeating.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-31
Votes: 0
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So far it only needed an update and a restart after fresh installing, runs smoth in all regular home use tasks.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-12-04
Votes: 23
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Using SuSE-Linux exclusively since 2001 i wouldn't change to another distri. I tried some other distris, but they all had some reasons not to change to them. Actually i'm using Tumbleweed since nearly 2 years and had no problems ever, (also not with multimedia-support or wifi).
All works fine. Tumbleweed is ultrastable and easy configurable, the OpenSuSE-Team reacts really fast on reported bugs.
My focus is desktop-usage and working intensively on graphics and audio. You don't have to be a systemfreak for working with Tumbleweed, although the live is easier, if you can help yourself a little.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 1
Date: 2019-12-02
Votes: 0
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Doesnt come with wifi,
useless and broke my efi
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-11-22
Votes: 9
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Super reliable for a rolling distro. Btrfs in case something goes wrong. Sensible defaults. Lets me get stuff done without a fuss.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-11-22
Votes: 3
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Stable, continuous release, safe, fast, nice. What more can you ask for. Maybe debian is slightly faster, maybe more packages, but tumbleweed is great.
You just have to learn how to use it. Which is easy. Always zypper dup.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 6
Date: 2019-11-14
Votes: 1
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I have used linux since 2001, starting from suse, redhat, fedora, slackware, fedora.
I used 42.3 last years and I was really happy with that version. I had some minor issues with some software but more-less everything was correct.
Because of end of maintenance I decided to install fresh 15.1. The system is more stable compared with 42.3, there are a lot of newer versions of packages, but there are number of issus which drive me crazy. In general "you cannot install X because you do not have Y in repo. You cannot install Y because you do not have Z. You cannot install Z, because version on some lib in the system is old".
The good example is VLC and vlc-codecs. Forget about pakman repo. The glibc in 15.1 is "old". Whatever I touch in 15.1 I have some smaller or bigger issues. If you use chrome, gimp and some default stuff, no problem.
Similar issues with virtualbox/
I have serious doubt whether linux e.g. opensuse is still serious OS for desktop and for users with some non-standard needs. I have separate installation of FreeBSD and I have less problems with it compared with openSuse 15.1. OpenSuse was always for me a reference Linux, but this time I am really disappointed.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-11-13
Votes: 33
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I have the OpenSuSe distribution installed on my laptop. Initially I looked a little suspicious to her, as I was used to Arch Linux (very good and requires knowledge of its structure). The installation of OpenSuSe is quiet, tends not to be a hassle for newcomers to Linux, as long as it's not a Linux distribution, and Yast can both ease and speed up everyday workstation tasks, as it can become a cane, generating a dependency on the user that will lead him to forget practically the handling and knowledge of the terminal emulator, always, always the heart of actions in Linux environment. So far I'm enjoying O.SuSe, super fast and with great support and fea
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-11-12
Votes: 5
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been using it on my laptop.
works like a charm
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-11-05
Votes: 6
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Having been using Tumbleweed for at least two years now (I can't really remember), I just keep on rolling and rolling it, never encountered a serious problem, except that one may easily screw up something unexpectedly when just shifted to it. But you still can handily save you day by rolling back with snapshots. The on growing size of the snapshots may cause some troubles for laptops with small size SSDs if you want to upgrade the system (it would be best to upgrade with 'zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change' to avoid conflicts of files from different vendors). This can be avoided by restricting the number of allowable snapshots. In summary, it is a very stable Distro with a good balance between being professional and being easy-to-use. Recently, the OpenSUSE team start to compile the Distro with LTO, which makes it faster than before.
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-11-04
Votes: 0
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The best Distro, i have tested the last weeks Ubuntu 19, Fedora 30, Manjaro and much more but for me the best is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-10-28
Votes: 4
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I keep on returning to openSuse because it gets into fewer 'tangles' and is generally hassle free. It does not support as many obscure packages as Debian based distributions, which sometimes leads me to experiment. I am talking electronic design and similar.
Two annoyances are that I prefer AMD hardware, and as support for the GPU's on AMD is pretty non-existant I was forced to use NVidea on one machine. This is fine apart from updating sometimes leaving me with no graphical login. A re-install with Yast from the command line restores play, but... It used to be that the Nouveau drivers would break the AMD graphics, leading to a tussle persuading the system it could manage without.
And then there is Korganizer which only works with the wind blowing from the right direction. It should be ultra reliable for it do do its job.
I have been using openSuse since it was first forked from Slackware. It is still hard to beat overall.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-10-24
Votes: 1
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since 15.0 it's my favorite linux distro because:
- i gett the software i like out of the box
- surprisingly i have less hardware issues then on ubuntu based distros (mostly AMD hardware)
- using zypper and yast is more comftreble form me then other solutions
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-10-24
Votes: 4
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Running 15.1 and also 15.0 on several laptops - no issues since KDE has more or less stabilized.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-10-23
Votes: 2
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Great operating system! Over the years, many options have been tried, Suse is the most convenient, fast and stable system. Yast-makes it friendly, and snapper-very safe. I recommend to use both for home users, including beginners, office workers, and professionals.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 8
Date: 2019-10-13
Votes: 3
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Just installed it, works ok... Comparing to Fedora, it is more easier to install virtualbox. However, still problems. e.g. hddtemp installed, but somehow it is not shown when using which, and not runnable... no idea why... it works perfectly on Fedora 30. because of hddtemp, it break my conkyrc. but at least runnable. Tumbleweed cannot even run my conkyrc, creating floating point error ....
The biggest problem is it takes long time to download the DVD.iso, but it tooks over 2 hrs to install as it still go goes to opensuse repo to download the latest version. so why bother creating DVD.iso? i tried the small live version, but not so smooth, you need to enter the repo yourself.... it is disappointing., why not enable opensuse repo by default.... I am not even talking about packman repo... I can enter it manually later.... the installation process is extremely slow and inefficient when comparing to Fedora...
But once installed, things are ok. not too bad...
Conclusion: ok, can be improved...
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Version: tumbleweed
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-10-07
Votes: 0
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I have been using tumbleweed since it was named tumbleweed, with only one major issue.
One computer has tumbleweed installed with BTRFS while the second computer uses EXT4 instead of BTRFS.
This computer was used while solving a problem with broken systems after updates using BTRFS.
The problem was solved after learning to deleting unwanted snapshots before updating.
I have never re-installed the OS, nor had a problem now for over three years.
Impressive for near bleeding edge OS.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-09-25
Votes: 5
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Works perfectly with Plasma desktop in my everyday use.
Yast is a must-have tool. Snapper has saved my OS (oS) a couple of times.
I am using it for browsing Internet (Firefox), mailing (Thunderbird), developing images (RawTherapee), converting videos (Handbrake), listening music (Cantata), watching movies (VLC) and so on, since 2011.
I used openSUSE beside Windows 7 on a dual-boot system initially, mainly for browsing the Internet (for security reasons). Later I started using more other purposes too.
And some years ago, on a rainy day, I converted my Windows installation into a virtual machine (and a Ghost image), then formatted its partition. Recently, I use Windows 7 (under VirtualBox) when I want to use my Canon scanner, or when I want to download tracks from my Bluetooth GPS.
My machine is a Dell OptiPlex 755 (Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400, 8GB DDR2 RAM, Gigabyte Radeon HD 5450, 128 GB SSD, 1 TB HDD).
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-09-23
Votes: 0
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Stable and rock-solid. Better the GNOME version rather then the KDE one.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-09-22
Votes: 0
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Very stable distro, running very good for development and fun (browsing movies music etc)
Strongly recommended
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-09-13
Votes: 0
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I have been using Linux since 1993/94 and although I have already used several distributions the only one I've always used from the beginning is SUSE / openSUSE. Very good and stable with its powerful Yast. I use KDE Plasma.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 9
Date: 2019-08-29
Votes: 6
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Very stable with my old pc.
AMD Athlon 5350, 12gb ddr3 1600, 1ssd, 1hd.
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Version: 15.1
Rating: 10
Date: 2019-08-26
Votes: 0
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Using Linux since 1999 (Linux only), have tried may distro's but always came back to OpenSuse.
Stable, Fast and Well designed, little time needed for maintenance, excellent KDE desktop.
Quick updates and a large collection of official software.
Has always been easy to install on several laptops and pc's.
Thank you Opensuse, you rock!
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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: 3
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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: 4
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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: 0
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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: 0
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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: 0
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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: 2
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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: 0
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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: 6
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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: 4
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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: 2
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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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