Comments on: Why do many Linux users dislike the Suse distribution so much?

By: Dan B

Dan B — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:02:11 +0000

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).

By: mr. c

mr. c — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:00:23 +0000

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.

By: prenomega1

prenomega1 — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:59:56 +0000

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

By: Jessica Queller

Jessica Queller — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:16:17 +0000

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.