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!

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    18 days ago

    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

    • TurtlePower@lemm.ee
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      18 days ago

      How is it with running Steam and how is it’s bluetooth controller support for Xbox controllers?

        • TurtlePower@lemm.ee
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          17 days ago

          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.

            • TurtlePower@lemm.ee
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              17 days ago

              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.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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      18 days ago

      I dont like that Yast competes with the KDE Settings, but having everything in a GUI is key and distros should fork it.

          • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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            18 days ago

            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.

    • Telorand@reddthat.comOP
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      18 days ago

      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 up