openSUSE

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1. I really really do like Open Suse though, and I think an open source future is possible.

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence”

2. Opensuse already supports booting into a known working snapshot with btrfs and snapper.

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “OpenSUSE Kalpa”

3. I flashed the coreboot package and installed openSUSE, and now it's my primary machine

   Recommends · May 2026 · in “I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook, and you can too”

4. it is a really solid Linux distribution and I rarely had any problems

   Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say”

5. I'd much sooner go with Mageia or OpenSUSE than an Arch derivative.

   Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too”

6. Just install a solid modern distro (OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mint, etc.)

   Recommends · Sep 2026

7. I moved to OpenSuse and have the same experience/opinion.

   Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK”

8. for 'rolling stable' openSuse is also worth mentioning

   Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “The Switch to Linux and the Beginning of My Self-Hosting Journey”

9. something boring and reliable like Debian or openSUSE

   Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS”

10. Setup wifi with some drama, but nice, it worked.

    Mixed · Jun 2026 · in “KDE Plasma 6.7 Released”

11. have had a bug free desktop experience for years

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Microsoft Account bugs locked me out of Notepad – are Thin Clients ruining PCs?”

12. openSUSE, which uses btrfs snapshots on updates

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues”

13. loaded with openSUSE, it runs very adequately

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Google ending ChromeOS support two years early”

14. I've had good luck with OpenSuse in the past

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Ask HN: What Linux distro do you daily drive?”

15. if not OpenSUSE I would be using Debian now

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March”

16. the system works incredibly well and stable

    Recommends · Oct 2026 · in “Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released”

17. I really really do like Open Suse though

    Recommends · Feb 2026 · in “Danish Gov agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence”

18. I switched to OpenSUSE this year.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs”

19. No running fan, no problems.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything”

20. OpenSUSE works great for me.

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered”

21. I like Open Suse a bit more

    Recommends · Jul 2026 · in “Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB”

22. When I ran an OpenSUSE Desktop (circa 2019) I picked Noveau instead of the proprietary drivers, and the picture was all corrupt.

    Criticizes · Jun 2026 · in “Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly”

23. One issue I had with OpenSuSE was that once a new release drops you have around 6mo to migrate all your machines over to it.

    Criticizes · Nov 2025 · in “Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming”

24. as often as i've wanted to try it and opensuse, they have never booted post-install for me

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “"This Is Not the Computer for You"”

25. it still took me an hour this morning to figure out how to get a VPN to work on Open Suse.

    Criticizes · May 2026 · in “Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March”

26. Could no longer stay current on my flavor of Linux (OpenSUSE)

    Criticizes · Jan 2026 · in “Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux”

27. This is a openSUSE bug, not a Ventoy bug.

    Criticizes · Mar 2026 · in “OpenSUSE Kalpa”

28. openSUSE, ChromeOS, Nix, Guix, and indeed, TinyCore all achieve the same goal with tooling that is about 1% of the size or complexity

    Recommends · Apr 2026 · in “PiCore - Raspberry Pi Port of Tiny Core Linux”

29. Contemporary Linux is still miles ahead of Windows in encouraging the child's hands-on experience and exploration of the system.

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Ask HN: How would you set up a child’s first Linux computer?”

30. I was really glad when the vendor started unofficially supporting OpenSuse so I could finally use git on these distros.

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake”

31. when you update your system it will let you know when updated files that certain processes are using were touched

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Update and shut down no longer restarts PC, 25H2 patch addresses decades-old bug”

32. beginner-friendly operating system in the same way that Fedora/LinuxMint/OpenSUSE/Pop!_OS/Ubuntu/ElementOS are

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux”

33. it's great from, for example, OpenSUSE, but that's not a distro I'd recommend to new users for other reasons

    Mixed · Apr 2026 · in “Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March”

34. Normally I just use regular Fedora/Arch/OpenSUSE for gaming on Linux and never see any issues

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Steam Machine”

35. I used OpenSuse with KDE version just until 3 month ago and never had any wifi problems.

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “KDE Plasma 6.7 Released”

36. have been working on making secure boot/TPM FDE unlock easy to use for a while now

    Recommends · Jan 2026 · in “Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company”

37. it was really a hacker man experience that is engraved in my mind as a core memory

    Recommends · Mar 2026 · in “Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting”

38. really cool background where the lighting changed throughout the day

    Recommends · Jun 2026 · in “Gamers beware: malicious wallpapers on Steam found stealing accounts”

39. the vast majority of steam games just working out of the box

    Recommends · Nov 2025 · in “Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark”

40. I'll stick with MacOS, BSD, and OpenSuse as desktop systems

    Recommends · Sep 2026 · in “macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess”