Where I used to work (University) we were a Fedora/Centos shop. Being familiar with those distributions, they are what I ran on my machines personally. I'm now retired, and I now use openSUSE Tumbleweed. For me, I like the rolling release. Some folks don't, but it suits my needs without having to go through a laborious upgrade between major versions. I've found that openSUSE is rock solid and has all the software that I need. What applications are you worried you won't be able to run on openSUSE? Answer from prthorsenjr on reddit.com
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r/openSUSE on Reddit: A question about software availability in openSUSE?
December 5, 2022 -
Hey everyone, I have been thinking about hopping to openSUSE for some time (I use Fedora 37) but what concerns me is software availability because I heard a lot that it doesn't have as much software as Ubuntu or Fedora, I googled but didn't find direct answers to this question so any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Where I used to work (University) we were a Fedora/Centos shop. Being familiar with those distributions, they are what I ran on my machines personally. I'm now retired, and I now use openSUSE Tumbleweed. For me, I like the rolling release. Some folks don't, but it suits my needs without having to go through a laborious upgrade between major versions. I've found that openSUSE is rock solid and has all the software that I need. What applications are you worried you won't be able to run on openSUSE?
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I switched to OpenSUSE from Fedora about 6 months ago and I haven’t had any issues with software availability. Software availability isn’t much of an issue these days thanks to flatpak and tools like distrobox. You can install stuff from the AUR in an arch distrobox and export it to your host as if it was a native app if you want to.
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r/openSUSE on Reddit: does openSUSE TW have a software center (like app store)?
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r/linuxquestions on Reddit: What is the purpose / advantage of openSUSE?
April 13, 2022 -
I get why people install arch, debian, fedora, centos, ubuntu, gentoo, etc. I understand their philosophies and the type of distro they are, cutting edge / stable AF, etc. I can't figure out why someone would want to use openSUSE. I'm not trying to stir the pot. I'm legitamitly wanting to know what openSUSE is about, what its strengths and weaknesses are, and a meme level comment is ok if you are actually giving me useful info also.
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The SUSE folks are pretty smart. They do a lot of things better (especially on configuration side of the fence), so I recommend them. openSUSE is a community spin with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) sync'd up underneath. So, for this, very stable. Btw, on the enterprise side, SLES is the most used enterprise distribution on high end equipment. There's also openSUSE Tumbleweed which (IMHO) is the best rolling distro out there. So, for this, cutting edge (but you know, the test harness used by openSUSE is so good, this has been remarkably stable for me). SUSE and openSUSE bring a lot of things to the table that are not found in other distributions. They use zypper for package oversight. They have YaST (which probably isn't as big of a deal as that once was). The openSUSE side favors KDE, and is one of the best KDE Plasma distros out there. I like their pam stack better than most. They are still friends with the Samba team (that was a dig at the Red Hat variants). They have the Open Build Service, which people can leverage to port things into SUSE/openSUSE,+ (without you having to maintain your own build environments). So, for me, openSUSE is where I start.... and I have to weigh why I would need to use a different distro. Mind you, there are some cases. But certainly give it a try.
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openSUSE Tumbleweed is rolling release snapshot on updates has YaST to configure the system kde some security defaults are stronger than other distros openSUSE Leap upgrades smoothly extremely stable YaST configuration
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But not all software is packaged and provided via repositories, and non-free software usually can't be legally redistributed via the package manager because of license restrictions. In these cases you'll need to go to the developer/vendor website and download and install the software manually - but always look for an openSUSE package in repositories first - and make sure you only download and install software from trusted sources.
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r/openSUSE on Reddit: Software availability
January 31, 2024 -
So I've been messing around with Tumbleweed. A big issue that i'm having to get used to is some Apps that I use aren't available. I do music production so nt only do I need specific Apps but I also need specific versions of those apps.
So Im aware of the various solutions to this problem. I know there are the repos for the basics. There's flatpaks for a lot of gui apps and there's Nixpkgs too. Also there is distrobox. Now I've played around with distrobox but not enough to understand all the pros and cons of it.
Example I use an app called protonhax which is in the AUR. Its a terminal app. How would this work from distrobox? Would I have to run it from the distrobox shell? How would I make a shortcut to a termianl app in distrobox. Or how would I call protonhax from Steam?
Some apps I've had to convert from .deb packages. I know thats not ideal but they seem to work and I cant find them anywhere.
Also I don't like the idea of having Apps installed from 10 different sources. I usually like maybe 2 sources but that just not proving possible with Tumbleweed. I've made a chart of all the apps I need and where they are. I have a few that are only available via OPI. Which again I believe is not ideal.
So my question is how do you guys get round the App availability? Is distrobox the best choice? Do you have more than one distrobox?
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Example I use an app called protonhax which is in the AUR. Follow the instructions* on the Github page contained in the PKGBUILD, and you'll have it compiled in 5 minutes sudo zypper in -t pattern devel_basis sudo zypper in git mkdir git cd git git clone https://github.com/jcnils/protonhax.git cd protonhax * Almost - it uses tcc whereas you'll have gcc, so you need to change 1 letter.... sed -i 's/tcc/gcc/' Makefile make Then copy the files as instructed. Voila... one Software availability sorted.
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I can't say that I relate, I have everything either in the native repos using zypper or opi, or flatpak. So I guess it depends on what software you use. For distrobox it's rather simple create a distrobox instance: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/docs/usage/distrobox-create.md enter it install your cli tools distrobox-export --bin /path/to/bin exit distrobox You can now call the cli tool you've exported directly from a terminal inside your host TW Regarding OPI it's about the same as AUR or COPR, not bad if used knowingly but I try to prefer flatpak over them unless it's a library. My priorities are: zypper, flatpak, opi. I never needed more than that. If you put the list of software you find lacking maybe others users will be able to tell you how they manage it on Opensuse.
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