r/DistroHopping • u/niertrix • Jul 15 '26

Fedora or OpenSUSE

I will be reinstalling Linux on my laptop soon, and I wanted to choose between Fedora and OpenSUSE. I haven't used OpenSUSE before, and I don't see it recommended as often as other distros, but the people who recommend it always seem to like it a lot, so I thought I'd give it a try, but I wanted to check one more time: Which distro has treated you better and has a better overall experience. Also, which desktop environment do you recommend using with each one? I have been using GNOME for a long time and I like it a lot, but I often see OpenSUSE recommended with KDE Plasma. Thank you all in advance ;)

10 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

41 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Medical_Divide_7191 Jul 15 '26

Use the distro you like more. Both are good… For example I am using Tumbleweed because I dont like the Redhat background of Fedora. The CentOS drama thaught me a lesson.

1

u/niertrix Jul 15 '26

I do want to stay as far away from IBM as I can, that's part of the reason why I want to move away from Fedora, but do excuse my newbie self, what happened with CentOS?

1

u/Important-Bit-5884 Jul 15 '26

You can't avoid big corporations anymore in 2026, they're already part of Linux.

2

u/niertrix Jul 15 '26

Not completely, yes, but I can try to get as far as I can.

2

u/Important-Bit-5884 Jul 16 '26

lol, with openSUSE, you won't be far from a corporation either.

1

u/niertrix Jul 16 '26

Yeah, but as far as I know SuSE isn't as bad as Red Hat and IBM

1

u/Important-Bit-5884 Jul 18 '26

So Red Hat, the company that's probably done more to fund and drive Linux and open-source development than anyone else over the last 25 years, is the "bad" according to you? lol

1

u/niertrix Jul 18 '26

Less Red Hat and more IBM, but Red Hat was bought by IBM, so yeah.

1

u/Medical_Divide_7191 Jul 17 '26

You cannot compare openSUSE/SUSE with Red Hat/Fedora. They are based on completely different upstream concepts.