I have distro-hopped a lot and have used the following distros as my daily driver for at least a month: Ubuntu, Mint, Manjaro, Fedora, Silverblue, Bluefin, Debian, Pop!_OS, and LMDE. I still think openSUSE Tumbleweed is the winner. It's stable, modern, doesn't crash on updates, and has good tools. When I see polls, I'm surprised to see so few people use it. Additionally, the openSUSE subreddit is smaller than most other distro subreddits.

I must admit, the openSUSE branding does look a bit dated. Could that be the reason?

I list some points that I found by installing openSUSE and using it for a short time after years of Debian / Ubuntu.

I list the issues by putting myself in the shoes of an inexperienced user.

- The openSUSE installer is a bit chaotic, there are too many technical choices to make, a user with no experience does not know what to choose; xfce, gnome, kde, partitioning etc ... On Ubuntu, just press always click> next.

- The installer does not have a minimal desktop installation, both GNOME and KDE, that Ubuntu has. I don't want to have akonadi and all KDE software on a KDE installation, I prefer to install extra things apart if I want them, as well as on GNOME. I don't want two login managers (lightdm and gdm), I don't want ICEwm and other extras, after an installation of openSUSE I have to remove many packages.

- After installation, on openSUSE you do not have the possibility to install the NVIDIA drviers, audio and video codecs, at least not as simple as on Ubuntu where you just select from the installer a check "install third party codecs and drivers", the user in this way it also has the NVIDIA drivers installed without looking on the internet how to do it. Ubuntu also has an "additional drivers" tool.

- I approached and tried openSUSE only for Btrfs by default, but I also noticed on this that snapper is too technical for a beginner desktop user; snapper creates too many snapshots, I don't have an easy way in the configuration to tell him to limit the snaps, set the snaps only manually, or in automatic mode tell him that I want max 3 snaps per week, look at the simplicity of Timeshift, it's fantastically simple.

- I don't have an easy way on openSUSE to report a bug, on Ubuntu I am motivated because it is very simple: "ubuntu-bug nomepackage" and it takes me to the lauchpad page with all the package and system logs.

These are the main differences that I have noticed. I wrote here because I hope for an improvement in this sense on openSUSE desktop, because to date I see a disinterest on the desktop.

I remember when I was first getting into linux, OpenSUSE was a major player in the Linux world alongside Ubuntu, Debian and Arch.

Fast forward to today, and I barely hear about it. I fired Tumbleweed up in a VM, and in my experience it's pretty decent. Supports most software, zypper and Yast are pretty cool, has both a stable (Leap) and latest/rolling (Tumbleweed) edition, wiki is about as good as Fedora or Ubuntu.

So what happened? Why does OpenSUSE seem so secluded and not-talked-about compared to other distros? Is it just lack of marketing?

I don't see it recommended on reddit very often and I just want to understand why. Is it because reddit is more USA-centric and it's a German company?

With Tumbleweed and Leap, there's options for those who prefer more bleeding edge vs more stability. Plus there's excellent integration for both KDE and GNOME.

For what it's worth I've only used Tumbleweed KDE since switching to Linux about six months ago and have only needed to use terminal twice. Before that I was a windows user for my whole life.

Hi guys so what's your opinion? Why is such a solid distro so overlooked?

I have switched from endeavouros 2 years ago and I am absolutely in love with opensuse tumbleweed.

Rolling, stable, bleeding edge, yast, works like a charm, opi, lots of tools and perks, amazing KDE implementation, works for both personal and private use as well.

But somehow opensuse doesn't get the attention it should. Why is that?

I am currently using Mint 17.3 Cinnamon and will be switching to Manjaro or OpenSuse next. The reading I've done online tells me that while Mint and Manjaro are easy to use and popular, the are looked down on by Linux vets (usually for good reasons). However in terms of OpenSUSE there is nothing but praise. I have never seen anyone say anything negative about OpenSUSE, the only thing close to negativity is that it has a small community. This leads me to wonder why such an old distro that is universally praised by veterans, as well as easy to use, is unpopular?

As a new linux user (1 year), seeing all the distros out there is very overwhelming and it's hard to grasp the true nature of a distro based only on short term reviews that miss a lot of the important details. So what better thing than to ask it's users the reasons behind them using it.

Write everything that comes to mind for why you chose, use and recommend openSUSE. What makes it special? And what things do you dislike?

Oh, openSUSE Tumbleweed (I haven't tried Leap) is an AMAZING distro!

• Updated packages;

• Highly stable for a Rolling Release distro;

• YaST;

• Snapper is there to save the system from instability;

• Zypper is simple to use. It's not a dnf or apt, but it definitely doesn't disappoint;

• Easy to install NVIDIA proprietary drivers;

• It has good support and/or compatibility with various tools and programming languages (I'm looking at you, .NET);

• ...

Why don't I see so many people using or commenting more about openSUSE? There must be a bunch of problems and negative points that I'm not seeing, that's the only way to justify the lack of adoption. For me, I would consider this distro one of the most solid and well-made I've found.

What's your opinion? Could you talk about the mistakes and where openSUSE falls short? Could it be that I was lucky to find a distro that simply likes my PC?

I have recently tried out OpenSuse Tumbleweed and boy oh boy do i like it. The thing i like most is that it is rolling release, nearly bleeding-edge and it is stable! I rarely hear anyone talk about OpenSuse, whether it is a complaint or praise. I feel like OpenSuse is highly underrated. What do you guys think and what is your experience?

SuSE was the second most popular distro for quite a long time. But in 2005 when openSUSE was released it just completely lost its popularity. You can still use SuSE today but just no one uses it. Did SuSE ended like redhat ?

hi,guys.I am from china,But no one around me uses openSUSE，they use Ubuntu,Censos ,even Arch.After i use openSUSE,I find it novice friendly and i like it .but Why is openSUSE not popular in China? this is my question.Will SUSE officials promote the development of the Chinese community in the future？

I don't see this OS mentioned a lot but in my experience it's a great alternative to Fedora and Manjaro for if someone needs a rolling distro that is not a pain to set up. I mean it looks great, and I'm thinking of switching up my Mint installs for this. I mean...

• it has solid enterprise grade backing

• works out of the box

• GNOME, KDE and XFCE desktop options on a single ISO

• YaST software manager is great!

Am I missing something? This is a dream distro! I tried Fedora on the same machines and it gave me nothing but trouble, and openSUSE just... works! Is there anything I should watch out for? Any reason it's not one of the "industry standard" distros?