8 engineers on Hacker News describe using openSUSE first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“When I've tried other distros over the years, the issue you described has happened to me on: SuSE”
regret · personal · newsoftheday · 2026-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use OpenSUSE at work. It is 100% my choice... have been using my main work computer for 3.5 years with the same install.”
endorse · production · 3.5 yr · baldfat · 2015-06-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using an HP dv6113us for ~4 years now, with every version of openSUSE through that time span working without any deal breaking problems.”
endorse · personal · 4 yr · sonnym · 2010-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we are slowly shifting to OpenSUSE.”
neutral · production · rf15 · 2026-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it is Java based and ran on OpenSuse for clients and think Redhat on the servers due to IBM”
neutral · production · tibbydudeza · 2023-11-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after about 7 years of running OpenSUSE Linux[0] and have been looking to buy a less powerful laptop”
neutral · personal · 7 yr · mdip · 2021-10-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Fedora / KDE on desktop and OpenSUSE / KDE on my laptop.”
neutral · personal · 1 yr · therealrootuser · 2020-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated to OpenSUSE about 3 years ago”
neutral · production · 3 yr · archi42 · 2020-01-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?