From the community: openSUSE Tumbleweed in the reader test

openSUSE good for beginners

From the community comes a detailed experience report about the transition from Windows 7 to the free operating system openSUSE. In addition to the stable branch of the community edition, openSUSE Leap 15.2, openSUSE Tumbleweed is also a rolling release that the ComputerBase reader has chosen.

Fast! Integrated! Stable! Tested! 

During openSUSE Leap"Based on the current enterprise operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise 15.2 Service Pack 2 and using its repositories, openSUSE Tumbleweed is always supplied with the latest stable package versions via the developer version "Factory" and from the openSUSECommunity itself under the motto: Quick! Integrated! Stable! Tested! "

Rolling Release in the reader review

In his [reader article] openSUSE Tumbleweed - ein Experiment testet Community-Mitglied SE. "The Linux distribution, which has been very popular in Germany for years, puts it through its paces and quickly states:

I like openSuse Tumbleweed.

openSUSE Tumbleweed is tested with a current desktop environment of type KDE Plasma 5.19.5, which interested users can also try out without obligation with the distribution KDE neon, as well as the operating system kernel Linux 5.8.4. -1.

The following hardware was used:

• AMD Ryzen 5 1600
• Asus Prime B350 Plus
• 16 GB DDR4 memory
• Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 570 8 GB

The Today US reader explains his switch to openSUSE Tumbleweed in particular and a Linux distribution in general as follows:

I didn’t feel like Windows 10. So at the official support end of Windows 7 I was faced with the decision to go to the Apple world, which would have been okay for me, or just try a random Linux first. After a short trip to Ubuntu and Manjaro it has become openSuse Tumbleweed.

Why openSUSE Tumbleweed? Why the desktop environment KDE? And what else is there? SE answers these and other questions. and is looking forward to questions, criticism and suggestions from the Today US community.

Give me the clues!

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