Crowdsourced comparison between Linux distributions for beginners with pros and ...
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Crowdsourced comparison between Linux distributions for beginners with pros and cons for each
Codec support. You have to add a third party repository, which is called "Packman" to get packages with all codecs enabled. If you go through http://opensuse-community.org, this becomes relatively easy, but still something that one has to know about. On Tumbleweed, I've also had some breakages with codecs.
If you want to run Tumbleweed, there's currently no package for the proprietary Nvidia driver. It's possible to manually install, but a bit of a pain.
Their tools are awesome, but they do come with a bit of a learning curve.
They ship with btrfs for the root-directory and XFS for the home-directory, which I would personally list as a pro, but I've heard of people who find btrfs and XFS severely unstable.
They ship a lot of crap. A lot of it.
They ship not only a lot of crap, but probably also the most sophisticated setup that I've seen so far. As a result, it's also quite opinionated. For example, when you install, uninstall or update packages, they automatically create a snapshot of your filesystem for you. Awesome feature, if you like it. If you don't like it, well, good luck trying to disable it.
Their distro-installer offers a lot of options and things. Again, probably the most sophisticated installer out there, but it does also mean that it can be quite overwhelming.
I've heard from a disproportionate number of people (myself included), who's had trouble installing openSUSE. Probably a result of the small community.
Leap 42.1 has no Live image. Tumbleweed does have one, not sure if Leap 42.2 will get one.
Looks good in some places, won't win a beauty award in others. The not-so-pretty part is mainly YaST. Its GUI is modelled to look similar to its ncurses-interface, which is nice as you immediately know your way around, if you ever want to or have to use the ncurses-interface, but it does mean that the GUI is kind of blocky.
Mind that this list is now a bit more detailed than the Pro-list. And even despite all these Cons, I do still personally think that the Pros overweigh by a lot.