openSUSE Leap
SUSE's enterprise sibling for people who want a fixed release and serious tooling. Quietly competent.
Facts
- Family
- suse
- Based on
- SLES 16
- Release model
- Fixed release
- Current
- 16.0
- Init system
- systemd
- Default desktop
- GNOME or Plasma
- NVIDIA
- NVIDIA's own repository, added by hand.
- Systemd-free
- No
- 32-bit support
- No
- As of
- 2026-10-09
How the chooser scores it
Scores run from 1 to 5, and 5 is best for the user. They are opinion with a spreadsheet.
- StabilityStability: 5 out of 5
- Easy installEasy install: 3 out of 5
- Daily comfortDaily comfort: 3 out of 5
- Docs and helpDocs and help: 3 out of 5
- Fresh softwareFresh software: 2 out of 5
- GamingGaming: 2 out of 5
- DevelopmentDevelopment: 4 out of 5
- Old hardwareOld hardware: 2 out of 5
- ControlControl: 4 out of 5
- LightnessLightness: 4 out of 5
- NVIDIA, recent cardsNVIDIA, recent cards: 3 out of 5
- NVIDIA, older cardsNVIDIA, older cards: 3 out of 5
Caveats
- Leap 16 is Wayland-only and needs an x86-64-v2 CPU.
- Steam is no longer packaged in the official non-OSS repository.
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