{"slug": "suse", "name": "SUSE", "category": "os", "category_name": "Operating systems and desktop", "description": "", "recommenders": 4, "commenters": 9, "warners": 1, "score": 3.667, "rising": 0.02, "first": "2025-11-23", "latest": "2026-09-29", "why": "a good deal for the Netherlands and Luxembourg/Germany if Netherlands would uses SUSE", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 4, "neutral": 3, "compare": 1, "warn": 1}, "spark": [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "a good deal for the Netherlands and Luxembourg/Germany if Netherlands would uses SUSE", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "suse.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.suse.com/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["SUSE", "SUSE Linux"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 798282016, "item_id": 49892626, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892626", "by": "Alexander-Barth", "date": "2026-09-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a good deal for the Netherlands and Luxembourg/Germany if Netherlands would uses SUSE", "excerpt": "For context, the US once prevented that a German company AIXTRON was sold to a Chinese investor in 2016 (perhaps for good reasons). To me it would sound like a good deal for the Netherlands and Luxembourg/Germany if Netherlands would uses SUSE and the Luxembourg/Germany would step in to keep in in the EU. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/12/02/us-blocks-chinas-fujian-buying-aixtron/94833072/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"}, {"id": 773208466, "item_id": 48325529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325529", "by": "graemep", "date": "2026-05-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Suse and a few others are fine too.", "excerpt": "Depending where on the rather broad spectrum between Arch and MacOS you want to be (GP switched from Arch to MacOS because Arch needs maintenance and can break) I would say any of Manjaro, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RH and many more. > Hence why I keep returning to FreeBSD for my servers. It sounds like you were using Arch on a sever. 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My preference is Suse but I\u2019d settle for Ubuntu if it means I don\u2019t have to use MacOS.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Raycast for Windows"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 767253443, "item_id": 47953340, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953340", "by": "xeeeeeeeeeeenu", "date": "2026-04-29", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "it remains unpatched in many distros", "excerpt": "It seems there was some kind of confusion during the disclosure process, because the vendors aren't treating this vulnerability as serious and it remains unpatched in many distros. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-31431 \"Moderate severity\", \"Fix deferred\" https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431 https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-31431 https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3143", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Copy Fail \u2013 CVE-2026-31431"}]}], "who": [{"by": "lproven", "context": "Linux user and former freelance Windows expert", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509579", "date": "2026-08-31"}, {"by": "codingrightnow", "context": "poor college kid", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734736", "date": "2026-06-30"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["dual-gpu screen configuration"], "compared": [{"slug": "ubuntu", "name": "Ubuntu", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "debian", "name": "Debian", "co": 4, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}, {"slug": "gentoo", "name": "Gentoo", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49891550", "title": "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503934", "title": "Matrox: Graphics for Professionals", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48732056", "title": "Knoppix", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315980", "title": "Why Gentoo?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48056227", "title": "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47952181", "title": "Copy Fail \u2013 CVE-2026-31431", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"recommend": 1}, "2025-12": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-05": {"compare": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 798282016, "item_id": 49892626, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892626", "by": "Alexander-Barth", "date": "2026-09-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "a good deal for the Netherlands and Luxembourg/Germany if Netherlands would uses SUSE", "excerpt": "For context, the US once prevented that a German company AIXTRON was sold to a Chinese investor in 2016 (perhaps for good reasons). To me it would sound like a good deal for the Netherlands and Luxembourg/Germany if Netherlands would uses SUSE and the Luxembourg/Germany would step in to keep in in the EU. https://eu.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/12/02/us-blocks-chinas-fujian-buying-aixtron/94833072/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "US sanctions force The Netherlands off Microsoft and toward alternative NixOS"}, {"id": 792153265, "item_id": 49509579, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509579", "by": "lproven", "date": "2026-08-31", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I had to keep SUSE around for several years in dual boot", "excerpt": "Before I was a Linux type I was a Windows expert, and when I went freelance in 1996, I built myself a fairly serious NT 4 rig: Pentium II 450, 192MB of RAM (I think), and dual Matrox Millennium cards so I could drive dual 14-15 inch CRT (glass) screens as a single big display. I think I kept those cards, as a pair, in my next 3 or 4 PCs \u2013 I know I was still using them about a decade later, because when I switched fro", "context": "Linux user and former freelance Windows expert", "use_case": "dual-GPU screen configuration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Matrox: Graphics for Professionals"}, {"id": 779755777, "item_id": 48734736, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734736", "by": "codingrightnow", "date": "2026-06-30", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "My real first was SUSE distributed via CD-ROM in a GNU/Linux magazine.", "excerpt": "Puppy via USB was one of my first. My real first was SUSE distributed via CD-ROM in a GNU/Linux magazine. I used to run Puppy from not a usb drive but a hard drive in an external closure plugged into the USB port. I was a poor college kid and that's all I had.", "context": "poor college kid", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Knoppix"}, {"id": 773208466, "item_id": 48325529, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325529", "by": "graemep", "date": "2026-05-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Suse and a few others are fine too.", "excerpt": "Depending where on the rather broad spectrum between Arch and MacOS you want to be (GP switched from Arch to MacOS because Arch needs maintenance and can break) I would say any of Manjaro, Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, RH and many more. > Hence why I keep returning to FreeBSD for my servers. It sounds like you were using Arch on a sever. You use Arch if you are happy fixing breaking changes. its not for somethi", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why Gentoo?"}, {"id": 768941027, "item_id": 48058814, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058814", "by": "gucci-on-fleek", "date": "2026-05-07", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Debian, OpenBSD, SUSE, and Gentoo all patched it within a week", "excerpt": "I'm somewhat skeptical here, because I notified the FreeBSD security team of a vulnerability a few years ago, and I never got a response, even after a follow-up email a few weeks later. To be fair, my report was about a non-core component, and the vulnerability wouldn't be very easy to exploit, but Debian, OpenBSD, SUSE, and Gentoo all patched it within a week [0]. That being said, I'm not suggesting that anyone shou", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"}, {"id": 767253443, "item_id": 47953340, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953340", "by": "xeeeeeeeeeeenu", "date": "2026-04-29", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "it remains unpatched in many distros", "excerpt": "It seems there was some kind of confusion during the disclosure process, because the vendors aren't treating this vulnerability as serious and it remains unpatched in many distros. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-31431 \"Moderate severity\", \"Fix deferred\" https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431 https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-31431 https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3143", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Copy Fail \u2013 CVE-2026-31431"}, {"id": 762386128, "item_id": 47649133, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47649133", "by": "lokinorkle", "date": "2026-04-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Switched to SuSE a few years ago, still love it", "excerpt": "Switched to SuSE a few years ago, still love it", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"}, {"id": 738904352, "item_id": 46181522, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181522", "by": "amiga386", "date": "2025-12-07", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "suse 11.1 includes perl 5.10", "excerpt": "suse 11.1 includes perl 5.10: https://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/discontinued/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/suse/i586/perl-5.10.0-62.10.i586.rpm perl 5.8 was released in 2002. perl 5.000 (there is no perl 5.0) was released in 1994. I have difficulty accepting you have perl \"5.0\" installed.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Perl's decline was cultural"}, {"id": 736422977, "item_id": 46026436, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46026436", "by": "theoldgreybeard", "date": "2025-11-23", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "My preference is Suse", "excerpt": "I used to be a diehard Mac guy but now I insist on having a Linux workstation. My preference is Suse but I\u2019d settle for Ubuntu if it means I don\u2019t have to use MacOS.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Raycast for Windows"}]}