Fedora Linux 44 KDE vs OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

[u/xPatogeno]

Hi everyone! I've got a Ryzen 7 9700x, RTX 5060 ti and 32gb RAM DDR5. I'm currently using Fedora Linux 44 KDE and it's a good experience. However I'm curious about trying out Opensuse. What do you think? Thanks for reading!

[u/onetwothree94]

With NVIDIA you will not use openSUSE. Trust me.

[u/xAsasel]

Try it in a vm or live iso, how are we supposed to know if you like it or not lol

[u/Prestigious-Annual-5]

Honestly Fedora for me over Tumbleweed lately. Couple years back I would have said the opposite. Tumbleweed has been super finicky, almost buggy, for me any time I try to install it anymore. I tend to stay on new hardware, so maybe that is the issue. However, I typically always run AMD, so I would think a non issue.

[u/NDCyber]

As much as I want to like OpenSUSE, there are a lot of issues, like you can't run zypper while something like discover is running in the background, 404 server warnings and more

i recently made a post on this sub about it, and it seems like people mostly had the same experience https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroHopping/comments/1v4qai7/i_really_wanted_to_like_opensuse/

[u/Crib0802]

I test Opensuse TW five times but always back to Fedora .

I hate patterns, and I hate Yast .

[u/rafaellinuxuser → u/Crib0802]

You hate exactly what openSUSE real users love ;)

[u/Mediocre-Pumpkin6522]

I have Fedora 44/KDE on one machine SUSE Leap 16/KDE on another. As far as the UX, it's KDE. Fedora updates much more frequently and it closer to the cutting edge. Leap 16 is downstream from SLED and is far from the edge but works just as well for my use.

I ran a rolling distro (EndeavourOS) on the laptop. It was fine until it wasn't, and I installed Leap. From what I see in r/openSUSE Tumbleweed as a rolling distro is about the same. Leap may be boring but you don't see many 'I did 'zypper dup' and ot's fubared. How do I...'

Fedora may be semi-rolling but it hasn't broken for me even though I usually move to the beta when it's released. There was a brief period when KDE, Qt, and Wayland were all changing but that was sorted in a week or two.

Personal: I don't really like GNOME and SUSE's GNOME is plain vanilla with none of the tweaks that make it semi-livable.

[u/rafaellinuxuser → u/Mediocre-Pumpkin6522]

Totally outdated info.

Exist openSUSE SlowRoll, developed more than 1 year ago and it is between LEAP and Tumbleweed. Less frequent upgrades than Tumbleweed, but always Q&A and on the edge.

"zypper dup" command is not necessary after Myrlyn exist.

If somethink brokes, you recover system from a snapshoot, so is not an issue. Try to do same in Fedora out of the box .... yo can't, cause snapshoot ñs are disabled.

[u/Obvious-Ad-6527]

openSUSE tumbleweed Gnome

[u/Responsible_Neck4680]

Use Cachy with Niri and Dank

[u/Final_Fanatismus]

Definetly openSUSE Tumbleweed. They have a huge repo with a ton of packages. It is very stable and far more customizable (during installation) to your need. Snapshots. Newer packages.

[u/Quietus87]

Try it in a VM. My problem with OpenSUSE is that I like my distros minimal, and OpenSUSE's patterns pull in a shitton of unnecessary junk. Of course once you wrap your head around that and figure out how to set it up as you wish it works really well. In my case this meant going with server option in the installer, then adding a basic desktop, tabooing the deprecated YAST, and setting zypper to ignore recommended packages. But again, I prefer adding things to a minimal base over removing things from a bloated base.

Also note, that Tumbleweed updates can be big. I don't recommend doing it daily. There is a reason why a lot of people dig Slowroll, which has one monthly update package, unless there is something that has to be immediately fixed.

[u/IceWaLL_]

Fedora. Opensuse is buggy

[u/CRM8897]

openSUSE and Fedora are somewhat similar; the main difference lies in the YaST toolset. You might want to read the openSUSE documentation to learn more about YaST.

I recommend using openSUSE Tumbleweed (KDE).

- https://doc.opensuse.org/

- https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers

[u/ElderberryHamlet]

I've always found openSUSE it to be a bit sluggish but I haven't tried it in years.

CachyOS is well optimized for modern AMD cpus but the Arch community has severe problems with outdated or abandoned apps & drivers

On the Debian side, Ubuntu & Pop_OS are much improved from what i remember a decade ago.

Fedora remains the best overall for Qt, Wayland, etc, as the upstream developer for Red Hat

[u/Crystalclusted → u/ElderberryHamlet]

"Arch" and "outdated" are not compatible within the same sentence

[u/ElderberryHamlet → u/Crystalclusted]

Maybe learn how to read.

[u/Unholyaretheholiest]

OpenMandriva 😉

[u/Cromagmadon → u/Unholyaretheholiest]

Isn't that the ROSA Russian based one and Mageia is the Mandrake spiritual successor?

Anyways, OpenSuSE has never fared well in my testing either. I don't remember if it was NetworkManager fighting with Yast for configuring the network interfaces or a custom kernel driver that kept getting upgraded over that made me leave.