On 14/06/18 22:59, Stevens wrote:
I have been sub'ed to this forum for many years. I'm not sure which was my first opensuse version (I remember 10-something) but suffice it to say that I have followed the trials and tribulations of the user community here and I wonder what it is about opensuse that really sets it apart from all the other distros out there.
I mean, what is its main claim to fame? The answer to that has changed over the years but I wonder what it is now. Maybe someone here can make a compelling case for the use of opensuse instead of any other linux distro. If so, I would like to see it. What use case would cause opensuse to be selected? I suppose in order to answer that, one must be fluent in the various linux dialects. I am not; I barely have enough time to use this opensuse 13.1 and admin the adjacent webserver running ubuntu 16.04lts.
As my version is somewhat dated ;-) I will be moving to something better by year's end. Maybe 15.1, maybe something else. I really haven't had time to research, which is why the original question.
Thanks, Fred
There were 2 main reasons why I started using it: 1. All desktops are treated equally (at the time I was running gnome 2 with mostly kde3 apps very few distro's supported both even half well 2. Yast, as a new user it made my life configuring things easy. The reason I stayed: * How easy it was to contribute the things that I thought were missing. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B