--- title: openSUSE Leap Reviews meta\_title: 'openSUSE Leap Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 37 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how openSUSE Leap works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 37 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: IT Infrastructure url: https://www.g2.com/categories/it-infrastructure --- # openSUSE Leap Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by openSUSE Leap but has limited features. Are you part of the openSUSE Leap team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! The openSUSE Project is a worldwide effort that promotes the use of free and open source software wherever possible, and well known for its GNU/Linux based operating systems. openSUSE Leap is the keystone community distribution that offers unmatched choice by being binary-compatible with the commercially-available SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE). openSUSE Leap combines SLE quality with the amazing ecosystem of openSUSE, which offers thousands of additional community-maintained software packages. * * * Seller [SUSE](https://www.g2.com/sellers/suse) Discussions [openSUSE Leap Community](https://www.g2.com/products/opensuse/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Jeff Reser (Director, Product and Solution Marketing at SUSE) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/opensuse/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![CentOS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "CentOS") CentOS 4.4/5(425) ](https://www.g2.com/products/centos/reviews) [ ![Debian](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Debian") Debian 4.6/5(223) ](https://www.g2.com/products/debian/reviews) [ ![Fedora](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Fedora") Fedora 4.4/5(216) ](https://www.g2.com/products/fedora/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/opensuse/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 37 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Frederik W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Frederik W.") FW Frederik W. Customer Success Manager Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/16/2026 "Secure and Cost-Effective Choice for PC" 4.5/5 What do you like best about openSUSE Leap? I use openSUSE Leap as the operating system on my PC and really appreciate its safety features. Being based on Linux, I find it much safer to operate than Windows or even MacOS. The initial setup is also very straightforward nowadays, which is a plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about openSUSE Leap? All good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? I use openSUSE Leap for its security and cost efficiency. Being Linux-based, it's much safer to operate than Windows or MacOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite HA Hla Bhone A. System Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/28/2025 "Hands-On with openSUSE Leap – Pros, Cons, and Real-World Use" 5/5 What do you like best about openSUSE Leap? 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. What do you dislike about openSUSE Leap? 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. What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![CHARCHIT A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "CHARCHIT A.") CA CHARCHIT A. Software Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/29/2023 "Opensuse review" 5/5 What do you like best about openSUSE Leap? Its a high end tecnology. It is a versatile tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about openSUSE Leap? It should offer more specifications. Customization should be more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? Its solving many of my business usecases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Pramod K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Pramod K.") PK Pramod K. IT Analyst Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/9/2022 "Open SUSE leap review" 4.5/5 What do you like best about openSUSE Leap? It is tested throughly which lead to better stability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about openSUSE Leap? Open SUSE leapDon't have package manager. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? It's a good choice for a reliable Linux distro for desktop or server and deserves your serious consideration if you want to get into Linux or change distros for some reason Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite PB paolo b. official veterinarian, local administrator of official database of animal food primary production. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/11/2021 "full, professional and user friendly, easy to install and upgrade, full graphical system management." 5/5 What do you like best about openSUSE Leap? 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. What do you dislike about openSUSE Leap? 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. What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? sorry to be obvious, speed, safe browsing, data consistency. Georeferencing system working fast with huge data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic VL Vladimir L. owner Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/29/2021 "best business class Linux without the price tag." 5/5 What do you like best about openSUSE Leap? 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. What do you dislike about openSUSE Leap? Nothing, there is literally nothing i don't like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering openSUSE Leap: Never worry if its the software or hardware problem. If leap does not work, it is a hardware problem. Leap is super stable, with great support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? Replacing windows with leap is straightforward and users that are not familure to linux pick it up right away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![John M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "John M.") JM John M. Principal Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/22/2018 "OpenSUSE Linux Best for SOHO, SMB" 5/5 What do you like best about openSUSE Leap? 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. What do you dislike about openSUSE Leap? 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. Recommendations to others considering openSUSE Leap: Everyone knows Ubuntu, and Ubuntu is good certainly. But OpenSUSE has been easier and more rock-solid business-oriented, in our experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? Not locked in to Microsoft ecosystem while enabling flexible information platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/5/2020 Validated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Telecommunications](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Telecommunications") UT Verified User in Telecommunications Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/22/2021 "OpenSUSE Leap" 5/5 What do you like best about openSUSE Leap? Easy maintenance with YaST. Very good stability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about openSUSE Leap? Sometimes a bit more difficult cooperation with Nvidia cards during distro upgrades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? Great operating system even for notebooks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Steven D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Steven D.") SD Steven D. Senior Software Engineer Financial Services Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/20/2018 "LEAP into action with openSUSE" 5/5 What do you like best about openSUSE Leap? openSUSE has, hands down, the best KDE desktop experience of any distro out there, it has great theming and the defaults are pretty much perfect. On top of that, you have YAST2 for config in a nice visual manner, but can drop down to the command line for either finer tuned control than the GUI gives you or if you’re just more comfortable with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about openSUSE Leap? Getting mono to install the way that I want to has always been less than comfortable, but that is, I think, more on me than openSUSE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? Using openSUSE LEAP to spin up some low powered VMs for PoC servers is really fantastic, that has allowed much greater flexibility to myself and other devs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Sakura Y.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sakura Y.") SY Sakura Y. Owner Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/13/2018 "Great with those wanting to do away with Windows" 4.5/5 What do you like best about openSUSE Leap? I love that openSUSE is open source Linux, but still has many of the visual aspects of Windows. It helps to ease from one type of operating system to another. It's also extremely customization, which is a plus for both beginners and experts to the Linux system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about openSUSE Leap? There is a pretty major learning curve to certain aspects, most obvious when installing or updating software. Luckily, many tutorials are found online, but the system doesn't natively do things with one-click like many users are used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering openSUSE Leap: Read up on tutorials if you are lost! openSUSE does have a learning curve but most problems are easy to fix with a little research. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is openSUSE Leap solving and how is that benefiting you? openSUSE has given us the power to adapt to any type of computer or other phone/tablet, regardless of the operating system natively installed on the device. It lends flexibility since nothing is tied down to a particular system, and it's portable using only a flash drive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about openSUSE Leap? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about openSUSE Leap ](https://www.g2.com/products/opensuse/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is openSUSE Leap used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-opensuse-leap-used-for) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/opensuse/discuss) ##### Pricing Pricing details for this product isn’t currently available. Visit the vendor’s website to learn more. 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