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Reader supplied reviews for openSUSE Average rating 8.7 from 446 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: tumbleweed Rating: 10 Date: 2025-02-02 Votes: 8 OpenSUSE must be the definitive unknown major distribution. It attracts remarkably little publicity compared to other noisier and flashier distributions but, from my experience, it provides a solid, well-engineered desktop. I downloaded the tumbleweed KDE version. It is a small download (1GB) but takes a long time to install because there are a huge number of downloads. That done, there is a vanilla KDE desktop. The only custom configuration is one wallpaper and one theme. In fact, everything is vanilla - there is no attempt to customise Firefox, a recent trend which can cause problems. A piece of advice on the download page which is a must is to include the Packman Basics repository and switch to it over OpenSUSE's own. Doing that installs or replaces about 40 packages including vlc and, crucially, installs codecs which power a lot of basic Web functionality (see later). Interestingly, KDE uses X11. Unlike many others, the OpenSUSE team evidently doesn't think Wayland is ready, even in an experimental distribution. Tumbleweed's best feature is that it copes with three situations which, in my experience, are frequently botched in KDE distributions and are hard to fix: - gtk/libadwita applications. Here there are no giant cursors, oddly-sized screen elements or similar. - Stellarium. This application often causes a lot of trouble but here, again, screen elements are correctly sized and there is no flicker or image corruption. - Embedded videos in Firefox. With the Packman addition as above, these are not pixelated or choppy. Also, although the standard repository is pre-configured, there was no need to install flatpaks because I could get everything from repositories. Even calibre (e-book management software), which is notoriously difficult to package, was at the latest version. A straight 10 here - very rare - because I literally came across no issues when installing and configuring and I now have an excellent KDE desktop which I will be keeping. I would certainly not call tumbleweed "experimental" despite the caveats OpenSUSE makes! Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: tumbleweed Rating: 9 Date: 2025-01-29 Votes: 4 Rolling release with tested updates and filesystem rollback option. Very innovative in terms of systemd-boot, btrfs etc. Great support with enterprise vendors due to SLES. Easy administration via yast if you don't want to do everythin through the terminal. Only downside is: media codecs are not included (with no warning) and stuff like amd rocm is not available from the official repos, even tho it is open source. And contributing packages via osc is not super intuitive and seems like a worse wrapper around git. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: tumbleweed Rating: 10 Date: 2025-01-23 Votes: 6 distrohopper who finally landed on this. tried at least a dozen other distros. worked out-of-the-box (with an NVIDIA gpu and a few extra clicks on the installer!!!). it's been very pleasant to use. sick of the woke divisive politics behind-the-scenes with regard to openSUSE leadership, but i don't let that affect the score of the OS itself, otherwise i'd have to abandon Linux altogether lol. my only gripe is seemingly slooow download speeds on updates. not sure what's up with that, but it ain't mission critical or anything. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 446 reader reviews of openSUSE...