The openSUSE project is a community program sponsored by SUSE Linux and other companies. Promoting the use of Linux everywhere, this program provides free, easy access to openSUSE, a complete Linux distribution. The openSUSE project has three main goals: make openSUSE the easiest Linux for anyone to obtain and the most widely used Linux distribution; leverage open source collaboration to make openSUSE the world's most usable Linux distribution and desktop environment for new and experienced Linux users; dramatically simplify and open the development and packaging processes to make openSUSE the platform of choice for Linux developers and software vendors.
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I've used many Linux Distros over the years, Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro etc, so decided to give Opensuse a try as it had been a long time since I'd last used it.
Nicely surprised by how well it runs, everything works great although making sure its up to date you'll set up a reminder or just check it yourself every so often.
Discover included is a good idea despite what some say and I've not experienced any crashes, or slowdowns or incompatibility at all.
Plays my online games very well, and am currently playing Roblox with it with no issues.
I'll stick with Opensuse for a while to see how it goes, and if it succeeds then I'll keep it for as long as it works well for me.
Running Leap for months now on my main desktop since I moved from Antergos, doing work, game and other stuff. Blazing fast, boots almost instantly (not considering the time my motherboard takes to complete POST). YaST is insanely easy to use, and so is zypper. Never had any issues with it, everything just works. Graphical performance is excellent, UI is buttersmooth, system is extremelly responsive and overall seems to be the best distro I've ever used in terms of performance and stability. What else can I say? Repositories are based on SUSE Linux Enterprise, so it's as stable as it gets.
I sure wanted this to work (again!). What mess. Crashing default apps (yast software, lightdm gtx, etc). Unexplained slowdowns. I can't write an extensive review, only to say that I have installed so many good distros on this same machine over the past year, and opensuse is one that just seems lacking in solid functionality every darned time.
I'll check back with a version in a year or so, I guess. In the mean time, I'll try the Leap version for a while and see if maybe there are positive differences.
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