Review: OpenSUSE vs Ubuntu

susevsubuntuaf9 Review: OpenSUSE vs Ubuntu I have used Ubuntu for almost 2 years and was completely in love with Ubuntu. One fine day my UPS gave up and my lazy self never allowed me to buy another. The result, after 5-6 power offs, my root file system was corrupted. I had to do a manual “fsck -y” to bring it up. I thought all is normal now, but after the second normal reboot, the files system completely gave up and no amount of fsck would help. It clearly means a re-install. It should have been OK in normal circumstances, but I was in the middle of a release at office and had no time for even small configurations. Hence instead of using my favorite Automatix, I went ahead with Ubuntu Mint. Oh that was a changing point. Mint is Ubuntu modified and Mint’ified. I have KDE on my Arch Thinkpad, so the greenish theme of mint was a welcome change from the brown Ubuntu. Mint had installed almost all the required software and codecs for me and enjoyed Mint for one month. I thought now I have Ubuntu + all the codecs, without and configurations. What else could I ask for ?

I began with Fedora -> Gentoo and then landed with OpenSUSE. Fedora was too sluggish and Arch is anytime better than Gentoo. OpenSUSE, however, is another story.

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Comment by Devendra Dave on April 12, 2007

Hi,
I agree that SUSE is better and open than Ubuntu. I feel like SUSE is meant for power user and Ubuntu is for a person who is trying linux first time. But one get familiar Linux he make the SUSE as default desktop. I really agree that SUSE should improve package management in future release. On my SUSE 10.1 the package management was too slow. Installing or adding new repositories through Yast was taking around 15 mins. This is the only reason I switched to Ubuntu.

But in Ubuntu setting up the Java development tools for a Java developer like me will be nightmare.

Comment by Ciprian Mustiata on April 12, 2007

First of all I must look that are wrong math here: 5 Ubuntu /10 openSUSE (no 3/11). Secondly some parts are trivialities: you like more the blue theme. IMHO is more important to simplify the install, the community to face the problems and the package management are the most important today to a distribution. Possibly the install is not so important if is pre-installed by OEM machines. The strongest mark for me for OpenSUSE is not “stability” which is very relative (I remember that you cannot find the last software in OpenSUSE which miss last of some fixes, and you can always make it crush only looking of bugs that makes it crush), is the VBA integration in openSUSE, which makes it Office-enable environment, but OOO2.2 is in Feisty Fawn and misses in the OpenSUSE (the release of feisty hit the doors in a week).

Comment by MC-RPG on April 14, 2007

“I feel like SUSE is meant for power user and Ubuntu is for a person who is trying linux first time.” by Devendra Dave

SUSE for power users? Can you tell me what you can do in SUSE that I can’t do in Ubuntu. I can stand that statement from someone using Gentoo or LFS but from someone using SUSE? Come’on. Suse looks for the ease of use as much as ubuntu does. Suse make it in a more “windoized” way even.

Comment by Utenn Dharmathi on August 03, 2007

I’ve try both of distro. I like the way to update an install by use apt-get. SUSE is look more similar to Windows that mean easy for user to switch. Ubuntu is base one Debian which have more software package. This is a OSS style not thing good or bad but it depend on what is the best for YOU.

Comment by Fox on October 13, 2007

Suse is definitely the best.. no doubt about that. apart from the many things you have better on suse….. you can’t compare its look to any other….. not one….. suse for life and its nice that they are improving greately

Comment by karl Jacobs on March 23, 2008

Yet more piss in the wind. Use what suites you, with a bit of reading both Ubuntu and opensuse will do the job, however YAST is slooooooow. Anyway can someone define for me “poweruser”? and who are these powerusers? do they require more power than me and if so just how much? Perhaps these power users are like power fusion scientist or top medical researchers with power requirements way beyond that than be ever delivered by a green lizard or circle of friends?