openSUSE Leap Reviews & Product Details

What I really like about openSUSE Leap is how stable and reliable it feels. The YaST tool is super handy — it makes things like system updates or network setup way easier, even if you’re not a command-line expert. It’s a solid choice that just works without much hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some software isn’t as up-to-date, and the community feels smaller compared to other distros like Ubuntu. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its a high end tecnology. It is a versatile tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It should offer more specifications.

Customization should be more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can configure many parts of your system from one place and one tool YaST.

Becouse openSUSE Leap shares the source with Suse Enterprise Linux you get a stable system to work and game on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Because openSUSE Leap is built to be as stable as possible Leap sometimes doesn't have the newest version of some programs available and can be a bit hard to install. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a distribution with good stability since it is based on the Linux Enterprise version that tries to offer a solution that allows the deployment of applications and servers. System maintenance and package upgrades are also made easier by using YAST. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Using the distribution and configuring it requires more advanced technical skills than a normal user who wants to test the distribution, but doesn't know as much about the ecosystem of tools offered by SUSE, might have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is tested throughly which lead to better stability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Open SUSE leapDon't have package manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Install system, Hardware support, and auto-recognition, The choice between many desktop environments, Stable, plenty of packages official or from the community but however stable, availability and easy install of non-free packages/codecs, yes, it's important for the user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

nothing, first days of the release 15.3 "closing the gap" had some update trouble, but it's been a great step, solved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Stable, all drivers always work. had it installed on more than 100 different systems, never had a problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing, there is literally nothing i don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Leap 42.2 is my VPS Linux OS of choice (as well local LAN-connected machines). Summary: Manageability via YAST. You can run a solid system and not be FT professional sysadmin!

OpenSUSE instances are used for personal productivity (and in a mixed Windows 10 / Linux environment that is local and remote) and some small business projects. I'm not directly an IT professional, so minimizing the number of hours I have to manage my systems is critical. Over several years I've grown to really appreciate OpenSUSE. Having started with Ubuntu I migrated to OpenSUSE on the recommendation of a friend and have never looked back. It's easy to manage and it's rock solid. I now have good recipes for remote access over SSH supporting both X11 and VNC. (And my OpenSUSE desktop is the memory-saving Xfce.) The OpenSUSE deployment is now a real productivity tool for me. YAST is key to easy management. In fact I found that OpenSUSE has had fewer problems than I experienced with Ubuntu. OpenSUSE has market momentum and enough attention of user experience that it's a terrific choice for the savvy non-IT specialist. Note that "savvy non-IT specialist" means you are now responsible for security and backup and access -- but these are non-trivial challenges for any computer system! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A few years and versions ago the "systems info and splash page" applet was deprecated. It was a handy summary of sys info including storage, RAM, versioning, system parameters etc. All this info is easy enough to find, but not quite as convenient. Would be nice to bring back the applet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy maintenance with YaST. Very good stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes a bit more difficult cooperation with Nvidia cards during distro upgrades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenSuSE keeps up with the cutting edge of software, providing multiple versions and paths for whether or not you want reasonably stable or absolute bleeding edge. It's pretty easy to get and build software on the platform, and works well as a desktop O/S for a laptop. It also runs well on older hardware that may not be up to the challenge of more demanding operating systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Between all the M&A activity that parent/sponsor company SuSE has been through over the past decade or two, I think OpenSuSE has gotten lost in the shuffle. It's hard for a company that has to make money to figure out how to fund these things, anyway, and provide the resources for a freely-available and community-supported platform, and I don't think SuSE has done the best job of making this happen in a way that benefits the community using it. Also, the short lifecycle of the releases - about 18 months - can be challenging to keep up with - it's really easy to get 4 years down the road on a version and realize you can no longer get software and updates because you're two major versions back with no support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.