Why do many Linux users dislike the Suse distribution so much?
Apr
25
BlackCup asked:
Many people seem to dislike the Suse distribution and I was wondering why? Is there anything fundamentally wrong with it? Is it considered to “pedestrian” for the needs of most Linux users?
Many people seem to dislike the Suse distribution and I was wondering why? Is there anything fundamentally wrong with it? Is it considered to “pedestrian” for the needs of most Linux users?
Thanks
I don’t know that many Linux users do dislike SuSE.
A lot dislike Novell for making that deal with Microsoft.
Some people just prefer other distributions.
first suse is an ok distro
used to be a lot better back in the day.I personally dislike suse and its parent company Novell for making that deal with Microsoft.They are a sell out to the the open source, foss , samba, and the GPL.
As far is anything wrong with it yast sucks big time.
slackware , debian and gentoo enough said
i need a coffee
have been using openSUSE for the past three years
as one point i had a workstation motherboard that no other distro (and i tried many) even only discovered the hardware properly.
since openSUSE 10.2 (end 2006) openSUSE has been my primary OS; sometimes, when trying out other distros (need RH based environments for work) i even don’t have LostDOS on my (home) PC anymore.
even put openSUSE 11.0 on my work portable (ThinkPad T61); worked like a charm, practically without need for additional config; YaST takes care of everything.
Suse is disliked so much because it does not completely contribute to the Open Source community. Suse is commonly used in an enterprise environment, and includes many non-open source pieces of software (Real Player for instance).
Most linux users, myself included, want to support Open Source 100%, and we envision a day when all software will be Open Source.
Suse is techincally not free (at least last time I checked). There is a “trial” version of the operating system, however, I have not found a time limit or any other type of limit associated with “trial” versions.
I have tried Suse, and, looking past the Open Source issue, I don’t particularly care for it. It is loaded down with software and reminds me too much of Windows. I prefer a much lighter distro that I can add the applications I want to use. (i.e. Ubuntu).