Ubuntu Vs OpenSuse Leap | Which is the Best Linux Distro?

OpenSuse and Ubuntu are one of the top Linux distributions, which are not only loved by their respective communities but also have huge companies backing them.
So which among them is the best? Which among them is more suitable FOR You? Ubuntu or OpenSUSE. Let's find out.
Except for the fact that Ubuntu and OpenSUSE are based on Linux, there's isn't much of a similarity between them. They are very different from each other right from the principles guiding them.
So today I will be comparing Ubuntu 18.04 and OpenSuse Leap 15 side by Side and in depth, and as you know, I'll keep it short and on point.

How to install Ubuntu:

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[PankajSharma-irfb]

OpenSuse is the only desktop my touch pad works like windows. Its just great. Installer was fun. NVIDIA optimums, only a matter of a few clicks. Every piece of hardware recognized correctly. I am at loss to find why Suse is so underrated and less talked about. Its a great great distro. With snapper and btrfs.at my service, I couldn't have asked for anything more. For me winner is OpenSuse

[yesman]

Installing proprietary drivers on opensuse is not a nightmare. The unofficial opensuse guide is awesome.

[mustafapc]

I never use minimize button. ALT+TAB FOR LIFE!

[rootwayder]

Open SUSE. the right linux distro for me :). But i love the KDE plasma desktop

[sitaroartworks]

5:05 - "Ubuntu is officially supported by Steam" - another wrong bias here. Steam is Valve Entertainment. Valve officially have a distro based on Arch (Steam OS) which is basically the most powerful in terms of pure CPU threads performances and practically the best under gaming side. Unfortunately, Arch is not for everyone which is why Manjaro takes place, but guess what? Manjaro and openSUSE are the best in those performances and in few cases, openSUSE with slightly better multi threads performances, actually. I suggest you to use openSUSE on daily basis, explore it better and using XFCE or KDE desktop in order to get the ideal optimization. Ubuntu is only a popular name under the common Linux users and mostly choose Debian derivates with a better GUI but even the stones knows that under Debian field, Mint is better than Ubuntu-Canonical horseshit.

[MrMarkusaa]

i agree on this, i use OpenSuse for sure and never had any problems on any drivers for that matter, my son also runs opensuse and has no problems with steam or anything related to gaming or video editing, but for those who do not know how to use professional linux and just are playing around Ubuntu is more easy. In any case paint it green!

[ChristopherGibbsBKK]

I'd say for a new user Ubuntu is the better choice, though I'd argue something like Mint or Solus might be preferable. However, I swear by openSUSE. I'm currently running Leap 15, and though it takes a little more fiddling to get everything working, what you end up with is a system that is utterly rock solid, has incredible software availability, and offers the Snapper - the best system back-up and restore solution available on any OS this side of the BSDs. OpenSUSE is essentially un-brickable, once you've got it set up how you like, everything will work reliably, but if you experiment and something you do causes problems, Snapper will make it as though it never happened.

[Antonio_Zamora]

Informative video, but the background music is 66.6% too loud. For many years, I have been using Linux as a replacement for Windows systems that have become obsolete or for computers with crashed drives for which I needed a free operating system. I have tried OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Mate. I keep coming back to Ubuntu because it is the most reliable and easy to integrate with machines of different architectures.

[kakarroto]

You make excellent distro comparison videos. Thanks, man.

[Angryjenkinsdigital]

I have Ubuntu on my desktop for general computing and gaming. I have OpenSuse TW on my laptop formore experimental development. Both use Gnome. I personally like Opensuse's software management - YaST is great, zypper is a more verbose package handler than apt. Also like snapshots with btrfs.

But for general computing and support, Ubuntu is great. Runs all my games and emulations via Lutris. Haven't tried this on OpenSUSE yet.

[schubiduba]

I installed ubuntu and first restart led to os not starting anymore no matter what i did. Opensusa worked directly perfect

[OxygenGammling]

To install nvidia drivers on opensuse you can just add the nvidia repository via yast

[hagarthehorrible]

Just upgraded my desktop to Ubuntu 18.04 from 16.04 and what a mess. I installed OpenSuse Leap 15.0 on my 2009 laptop and after a few issue sorting it is so much better.

I'm not a power user and use my systems as a general pc, I've always found OpenSuse's KDE implementation to be perfect (for me).

[pospc]

I personally like opensuse better but Ubuntu is a solid platform as well.

[ghy]

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS hangs too much ..I tried and test others disto like linux mint centos cinnamon., Mate, kali and finally come to conclusion debian is the best of all if u want a stable fast os...

[hosseinesi]

Hi buddy, I've seen many of your vids, there is a FPS game on some (actually most) of yours, what's its name? (08:00 & 00:35)

[rafajsp]

Best distro is Linux !!!
Worst distro is "community distro wars ..."
That's the reason ms and apple are superior when it comes to DE and community.
There is no:
"program X doest work on your windows z ? try windows y"
"Windows z is better than Windows y"
"My windows pkg system is better than yours ..."
I wish we had just one distro with toons of DE's and WM to choose from because in the end, what governs distros and distros hopping are DE's.
Ps.: Linux user about 10 years.

[fubaralakbar]

Ubuntu is made for the everyday user. OpenSUSE is made for the power user.

[saidbakr]

I think it is matter of hardware support. To be insure about your next distro, just burn an iso image to a USB stick and tryout the distro without install, if everything works fine, do it! This was happened with me from two years ago, install Fedora or Ubuntu, The trying Fedora using the USB stick was a nightmare, so I gone directly with Ubuntu.
However, Ubuntu, in general, is not upgradable when you use PPAs, I had to install new installation (I did not formatted the /home directory) of 18.04 to upgrade from 16.04, but as you have regarded, Ubuntu is well supported, in many cases, just simple Google search will guide you to solve an issue or to provide a required solution.

[vortex.acherontic]

Nvidia drivers is wrong on openSUSE. Suse does just not shipp a dedicated driver installer suite since yast already do it. You simply need to enable the nvidia repository via YaST and then just Update. Viola, you even get a much more recent driver than in Ubuntu because nvidia hosts the driver repo For openSUSE Leap and Tumbleweed by themselves.

On Ubuntu you get outdated drivers without manual configure some ppas

Also if myself managed do get to openSUSE with the age of 14 (nearly 2 decates ago) with out any Linux knowledge, while Ubuntu forces you to use the terminal very soon, plus broken Systems on Release Upgrades I would consider openSUSE the more userfriendly Distro IMO.