A few years ago when I started using Linux and spent a weekend installing distros only to learn I couldn’t get anything to work with my Nvidia card properly, Tumbleweed worked.
I just wanted to sincerely say thank you to everyone involved with openSUSE. Developers, maintainers, admins and mods of the forum. Very helpful members of the forum as well. Or if you only ask questions, there are probably others with the same questions. I truly appreciate all of you and wanted to say thank you for what you do. openSUSE and the forum is awesome.
Thank you for your kind words - all too often in a support venue, I personally have to remind myself that usually it’s not people who have everything working fine who visit, but those who are having a problem, sometimes to the point of extreme frustration.
It’s always good to have these reminders that the work we do is appreciated.
@deebido Would you mind if I share the link to this post on some of our other platforms, f.e. our Matrix server? Like @hendersj I appreciate this kind of feedback very much, and it would be nice if other contributors, who do not use these forums would see this. I think this is at least as important as bug reports and complaints.
same story, 2003-2004, Nvidia graphics, couldn’t get any distro to work properly but openSUSE worked, since then using only openSUSE and tumbleweed (from first released version) no nvidia graphics now.
Deebido, I wish I’d thought of posting a thread like this a long time ago. I think openSUSE Tumbleweed is the best rolling distro around, and online support in this forum is often better and more rapid than what I’d expect from a paid product. I’m grateful to everyone who makes it possible.
I really have to say the same too! Even though I haven’t really used Linux for a long period of time (started around 2020-2022 on Virtualbox then dual booted in 2024 on a laptop), Tumbleweed really made me stop distro hopping.
I started experiencing with Ubuntu on Virtualbox. I had no idea how distros work. I remember that I couldn’t find the proper words to describe how Ubuntu looked very “mobile” (because GNOME) and thought that’s what Linux is so I stopped.
And then I started searching “Windows 7 Linux Alternative” or something and found Zorin OS and I really stuck quite a bit with it, which I still have on another home machine.
But I reached a point where I wanted to really “customize” the OS so I did some research and watched some video from “The Linux Experiment” and found myself enjoying KDE (it looks modern like Windows). I wanted a stable distro so I distrohopped from Zorin to Sparky Linux.
Eventually, I decided to replace my old laptop for a new one (which I asked in the SuggestALaptop Discord and subreddit). Coincidentally, they recommended me a ThinkPad because of its build quality which happened to support Linux so I got it. But because it has the more or less the latest hardware, I knew I had to distro hop again to a more bleeding edge distro and that’s where I found OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I could’ve went for Arch or Fedora but I really want KDE as the flagship desktop and Arch seems too unstable for me
And that’s where I am ever since. It’s been slightly more than a year since I’ve used Tumbleweed. Had a few hiccups here and there, ruined GRUB twice but I’m glad Discord support on the OpenSUSE discord worked out.
Really appreciate the forums here too. I think it’s quite nice and active.
Tl;dr: Ubuntu (virtualbox) → Zorin OS → Sparky Linux KDE → OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Also because of this, I got a mini PC as a home server and it uses Ubuntu LTS (and yes I still don’t really like GNOME).
