I used to use Tumbleweed and can't say nothing bad, very solid system. Also remember many high-note IRC public discussions with one SUSE high rank employee :)
They deserve to be more popular, probably marketing & sales teams ain't good enough. This Centos clone after 6 months seems like another failure. Enough clones, go ship some killer-features.
>They deserve to be more popular, probably marketing & sales teams ain't good enough.
Man, I love OpenSUSE, with Tumbleweed being my go-to distro, but in general, German software companies, absolutely suck at successfully marketing/selling their stuff on he international stage, with SAP probably being the only notable exception.
They're good at capturing the conservative local corporate market, who usually prefers to "buy local" anyway, but they never seem to understand that the same German practices just don't work on the international tech stage that's more tuned to the Anglo-sphere way, especially in the consumer space.
As a counter example, Dutch and Scandinavian tech companies seem to be way better at competing in the international race and gaining international adoption, than German tech companies.
Maybe it would help if they would be less conservative and more open minded to new things, like the Scandinavians, but seeing as living in Germany still involves sending letters and faxes to open/close contracts, using cash, while fast, cheap fiber internet is still a pipe-dream, I doubt things are changing too soon over there to make Germany a software juggernaut.
At least they make solid luxury cars that don't immediately fall apart. :)
German engineering is good because it is conservative without losing a forward gaze. You see these effects socially and you lament that it isn't something else (from the examples, the ideals that the US like to espouse), but it wouldn't be what it was then. As a whole, it is what produces the OS you like.
Which Dutch tech companies are those? None maintain Linux distros AFAIK.
After a decade of Ubuntu I spend 2021 distrohopping, and found my new home at Opensuse. Tumbleweed really is the bleeding edge without the blood for me. Leap is an excellent choice for more appliancy machines.
They deserve to be more popular, probably marketing & sales teams ain't good enough. This Centos clone after 6 months seems like another failure. Enough clones, go ship some killer-features.