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Reader supplied reviews for openSUSE Average rating 8.8 from 459 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: -- tumbleweed15.615.042.342.242.113.213.112.312.212.111.411.311.211.111.010.310.210.110.09.39.29.19.08.28.18.07.37.27.17.06.46.36.26.16.05.35.2 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: 15.6 Rating: 10 Date: 2025-05-08 Votes: 4 This is a rock solid distribution that's FAST! I've noticed a lot of Debian and various flavors Debian claiming to be rock solid -- I have tried most of them and most of them are flaky in some way. Some are stable initially and then they degrade - kinda like Windows - while in others the installer fails so I spend too much time installing the distros about 3 times just to test it out and then end up with other problems. I just don't have that kind of time to waste anymore. The main reason I chose LEAP versus Tumbleweed is due to issues with one package - vim. I use this all the time for editing and code reviews and just didn't have the time at work to make tweaks to get it running. Everything else in TW worked great - so if you're considering that version I wouldn't be set back by this very minor issues and plus I'm too stubborn to use one of the vim flavors like neovim. :) However, back to LEAP, I've been running this daily at home and work for well over a month with ZERO issues so far, which is quite rare for any Linux distro and hence the rating of 10. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: tumbleweed Rating: 10 Date: 2025-05-07 Votes: 2 What a wonderful experience with KDE. I got OpenSUSE running absolutely everything I need it to (VS Code, Docker, Rancher Desktop, LM Studio, heck even has a Tidal client) and it's very stable while being a rolling-release. I've been using OpenSUSE TumbleWeed + KDE for about a year now with absolute stability. I even got a bidirectional sync to OneDrive going with InSync; my HP printer laser-jet works with HPLIP; my WiFi 7 card is recognized without additional drivers. I can even dim my LG ultra-wide monitor with my keyboard shortcut. Linux has come a long way, very impressive. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: tumbleweed Rating: 10 Date: 2025-04-26 Votes: 1 My first choice and after years I go back to opensuse for my workstation. I'm using Manjaro, Void, Calculate for alternative purposes, but for work I choose opensuse. I prefer wm over de and because of this I go to void with hyprland, calculate with qtile and openbox with opensuse. Package managers: emerge is great but very slow, pacman is fast but very unstable, xbps is stable and fast but need some emprovements, zypper is stable and fast and simple for use - one of the best. SystemD vs OpenRC vs Runit: from my point of view openrc is loser, runit is very fast and simple, systemd gives perfomance and great oppotunities - it's not only init system it's powerfull tools for managing system and user defined servicies. With opensuse you never need to find alternativies for software, you take them from tonns of official repositories or rpm-packages. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 459 reader reviews of openSUSE...