First, let me be clear up front that I’m not promoting the idea that there should be one “universal” Linux distro. With all the various distros out there for consumers, there’s lots of discussion about Arch, Debian, and Fedora (and their various descendant projects), but I rarely see much talk about openSUSE.
Why might somebody choose that one over the others? What features or vision distinguishes it from the others?
Edit: I love all the answers! Great stuff. Thanks to everyone!
Opensuse tumbleweed is probably the most stable rolling release, so you get the newest software without everything breaking. Also Yast is an amazing utility that allows you to administer your system entirely with a GUI
I used it a while ago in a VM, and I was impressed how it felt like everything just worked.
Plus, it’s just fun that the CLI system update command is
zypper upI think for TW it’s zypper dup. up is for leap.
Could be! I have no idea, since I used it many years ago.
How is it with running Steam and how is its bluetooth controller support for Xbox controllers?
No problems in my experience
That’s not really distro specific.
Really? Because FreeBSD has bluetooth issues. Xpadneo doesn’t work with all distros. Hell, I can’t even get the authentic Proton VPN app on KDE Plasma. So please explain how my question isn’t valid.
FreeBSD isn’t a Linux distribution. And Steam is available as a flatpak which work the same on all distributions.
Yeah, shittily. Flatpak is sandboxed which causes issues for many games, least of which are anti-cheat issues, and it’s a huge pain in the ass, if not impossible, to get working correctly. The fact you suggest Flatpak for such a thing just shows you don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground.
I dont like that Yast competes with the KDE Settings, but having everything in a GUI is key and distros should fork it.
Not that much, Yast deals with the system, the Kde settings deal with the desktop. There isn’t that much overlap.
I think there is. KDE settings deal with Bluetooth, devices etc. Discover deals with repos and more.
Every time I’ve tried to use discover it was a mess. I think you can use it if you use nothing else, or you’re better off forgetting about it entirely.
I use it with Fedora Atomic KDE, rpm-ostree is not meant for that and a pain to use so I remove the package.
The Flatpak integration doesnt use PackageKit and works well, but it doesnt display the data nicely and is too slow. GNOME software is way better for Flatpaks, COSMIC Apps is way faster.
It is useful for fwupd but at the same time a bit bulky for that.
It is also a frontend for all the KDE Extensions and works very well here.