What brought me to openSUSE was that the Yast installer was able to install openSUSE flawlessly to an external drive, where I could choose to encrypt my system, whether I wanted a root account, could choose the filesystem, which I think is very important to choose at the installer stage, whereas other installers like linux mint could not install to an external hard drive without manually setting the partitions.
But what makes me want to discontinue using openSUSE:
- The use of Discover for package management. I think most new users would not know of zypper.
- Multimedia codecs. What a joke. Big big turn off that multimedia codecs don’t work properly in openSUSE, even when you have installed (supposedly) the codecs that your file requires.
- Being asked to respect openSUSE’s branding and to identify it as such and not as “opensuse”.
I’d really love for YaST to be able, when doing an upgrade from a live openSUSE distribution, to be able to convert the system from the MBR layout to GPT.