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Reader supplied reviews for openSUSE Average rating 8.6 from 498 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. 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: -- tumbleweed16.015.615.042.342.242.113.213.112.312.212.111.411.311.211.111.010.310.210.110.09.39.29.19.08.28.18.07.37.27.17.06.46.36.26.16.05.35.2 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: 16.0 Rating: 1 Date: 2025-11-04 Votes: 5 OpenSuse Leap 16 No Thanks i will stay with 15.6 for now. Agama installer does not work with network installer, got stuck at configuring stage. so downloaded full image and install was a success. but the system is very unstable, KDE plasma works fine but someting wrong with internal system. multimedia does not work, NO YAST. unable to install NON GUI SW from Discover. Myrln and Myrln as root does not work either, apply/accept option is greyed out. only flatpak works. every opensuse things does not work. not sure how this was passed to us as Stable system. KDE/ firefox/ flatpak works as usual. core system does not work, suse team has not done any work and just packed and shipped. bogus Distro! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: tumbleweed Rating: 10 Date: 2025-11-02 Votes: 12 openSUSE Tumbleweed has been my daily driver because it gives me a bleeding-edge stack without the drama. I get new kernels, Mesa, and Plasma quickly, yet snapshots and openQA keep things sane. My routine is simple: zypper dup, reboot if the kernel jumps, and carry on. If something ever feels off, Snapper takes me back in minutes. KDE Plasma on Tumbleweed feels first-class. Wayland is smooth on my hardware, PipeWire behaves, and the desktop lands polished rather than experimental. Packman plus a quick vendor switch solves codecs, and Flatpak fills gaps without polluting the base. Development tools arrive fast—GCC, Clang, Rust, Python—so I’m never stuck waiting for a compiler or library. What I appreciate most is confidence. Rolling releases usually mean babysitting; Tumbleweed feels disciplined. YaST covers deep system work, zypper is honest and fast, and Btrfs lets me experiment without fear. Gaming on AMD is straightforward, firmware updates through fwupd are routine, and even big transitions feel predictable. It’s not flawless. NVIDIA users will sometimes chase driver versions, and multimedia requires that one-time Packman step. It’s also not immutable; if you want transactional updates by design, look at MicroOS or Aeon. But for a classic rolling distro with real safety nets, this balance is ideal. In short, Tumbleweed is modern, recoverable, and refreshingly boring in the best way. It lets me live on the latest stack while keeping my weekends free. That’s why I recommend it to power users, curious newcomers, and anyone who values new features without routine breakage. It just keeps working. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: tumbleweed Rating: 10 Date: 2025-10-31 Votes: 14 Rolling & Stable, this is Tumbleweed in my experience. I dropped Windows a couple months ago once for all to install Tumbleweed with KDE Plasma DE, so far so very good. Perfectly compatible with my 5 years old AMD PC, performance in gaming are better than on Windows. BTRFS is a bliss and included Snapper gives a hundred points to OpenSuSE: you will have hard time breaking the system. I'm using Wayland with a single monitor and did not have any problem so far, just a couple bugs (but I think it was KWin or Plasma), fixed in a couple of days anyway. Got to say that I also tried Leap 16 on my laptop and did not have a good experience, XFCE/Wayland (there is no default x11 support on Leap16) gave a lot of headaches and the new installer Agama was somehow confusing, can't explain any further this sensation, expecially in software section. In conclusion, OpenSuSe Tumbleweed is my advice for any user, beginners from Windows and expert system administrator who do not care for extreme fine tuning (yes, there is some bloat but you can ignore it on general purpose PC with less than 20years of service). Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 498 reader reviews of openSUSE...