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Reader supplied reviews for openSUSE Average rating 8.7 from 329 review(s) What are your thoughts on openSUSE? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- tumbleweed15.415.042.342.242.113.213.112.312.212.111.411.311.211.111.010.310.210.110.09.39.29.19.08.28.18.07.37.27.17.06.46.36.26.16.05.35.2 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: tumbleweed Rating: 1 Date: 2023-05-25 Votes: 0 openSUSE Tumbleweed is a distribution that requires kid gloves (don't know about Leap). There's a lot you can configure during the installation process however it's very cluttered so take your time. Be cautious about adding repositories as this is one sure way to screw things up quick, fast and in a hurry. openSUSE is prone to getting confused quite easily once you start attempting to make it more than what it is out of the box. Which installing codecs is a must for most of us. YaST is furnished to deal with the shortcomings of the OS. For me that's a red flag. Whereas an Ubuntu based distribution sets up your printer by auto recognizing on the network, you must use this "tool" to get things up and running. If you're seeking something simple such as an Ubuntu based distribution, where you install it and all your hardware works, I'd look elsewhere. If you're up to the challenge, then have at it. Getting my WiFi and nVidia graphics to work properly was nothing short of ridiculous. In the world of Linux, and most things in life, there is always a tradeoff. Having the most update to date software is not worth the effort, simple nonsense and hoops you need to go through to make it useable for everyday use. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: tumbleweed Rating: 9 Date: 2023-05-11 Votes: 27 I use Opensuse Tumbleweed with Windows 10 in dual boot mode since October 2022. As desktop environment I use Gnome. I have a Raspberry Pi with Libreelec / Kodi in the living room. I have created a folder share with Samba on Windows 10. So far I have not managed to set up a working Samba folder share with Opensuse. As an alternative, I use Filezilla to create a folder share with FTP from the home directory, but the options are very limited. Until I have an equivalent replacement for Samba folder sharing, I'll continue to use Windows 10 in dual boot mode. Otherwise, everything works fine and I think Opensuse / Gnome looks better than Windows 10. My computer will not get a Windows 11 update, so I use Opensuse Tumbleweed as a replacement. I am satisfied except for the ability to create file shares. A point deduction. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: tumbleweed Rating: 10 Date: 2023-05-09 Votes: 60 It's been a while since I've used either openSUSE or KDE Plasma and I have to say I'm very impressed at how it's developed in the meantime. I plumped for Tumbleweed for simplicity of not having to go through upgrades every so often. What I like about openSUSE in it's current form, it still has the traditional YaST tools but is packed with the latest linux features and configured properly out of the box to make use of them. automatic btrfs snapshots instead of messing around with timeshift and rsync for ext4. Kernel 6.3 plays nicely even with my ancient Radeon HD 6770 GPU which I'm using on an MSI A320M-A PRO MAX along with a Ryzen 5 1600 and 16GB of DDR4-3200 RAM using the XMP profile and a 1TB SATA SSD. There's no instability whatsoever and the system is using less energy than with Zorin or Linux Mint. Somehow the KDE Plasma compositor is just more efficient. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 329 reader reviews of openSUSE...