I really like OpenSUSE. It's truly its own thing, in a world of Redhat and Debian derivatives. It's important to note that when I tried it out I used GNOME 3; I will try not to let that taint my review of this distro.
What I liked
- Many options for the windowing system (meaning anything but GNOME 3).
- Installation was easy.
- Came with the LibreOffice suite (per opt-in) and some other useful programs.
- The default partitioning scheme makes a partition for /home. This can be great if the OpenSUSE partition crashes and it needs to be re-installed without wiping personal files.
- Unlike the Debian derivatives I am accustomed to, it actually had a recently updated copy of VIM!
- I think that having root access is a plus (feel free to disagree).
Didn't Like
- DISCLAIMER: This really could just be a GNOME 3 complaint: Although there are 6 workspaces, they are linear. Unless there is some hotkey that I don't know about, this means that you have to swipe through as many as 5 workspaces to get to the one you're looking for. Plus, because they are in a linear stack, unless your WOI (workspace of interest) is on the top or bottom, it loses some association points (it's hard to tell the PB from the J sometimes).
- Doesn't come with the YUM package manager. Without it, getting some programs can be much more difficult.
Surprises
- By default, includes the mono C# compiler! I really was not expecting this.
Conclusion
Score: 8/10As I said earlier, I dig me some OpenSUSE. It's unique, it's helpful -- I have no major complaints. If I made one suggestion it would be to use something other than GNOME as your desktop system.
Information
| Distro Name: | OpenSUSE 12.2 "Mantis" |
| Kernel: | 3.4.6-2.10-default |
| Size After Install: | 4.0 GB |
| Desktop Flavors Available: | GNOME, KDE, XFCD, LXDE, Minimal X Window, Textual |
| Package Managers: | Aptitude, Yast, RPM, Zypper |
| Languages/Compliers: | Perl, C#, Python, BASH |
| Web Broswer(s): | Firefox |
| Root Access: | True |
| Has sudo: | True |
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