Could be because it's European. openSUSE has a nice pacing, it's new enough to be a great platform but it's not changing so quickly you need a fresh installat

Could be because it's European. openSUSE has a nice pacing, it's new enough to be a great platform but it's not changing so quickly you need a fresh installation every handful of months or you're constantly fixing things. The tooling is good as well, there are some aesthetic things I kind of dislike (like some of the config files in /etc should be a layer deeper, ATMO) but it works well and it's well made. Major upgrades tend to work and aren't that scary. The transactional system versions (MicroOS and then TW can be installed as "transactional") are potentially game changers. The snapper integration with btrfs and grub makes a really compelling case if you've ever needed it; btrfs seems like it's getting closer and closer. This is my interpretation: If you go back to when RHEL was spawned, there were sort of two distinct styles of Linux systems, they were very much and east coast and west coast sort of style. UNIX dorks may disagree with this, but SuSe has provided something more like a European style. They have tools for updating configuration files and they provide some opinions on how things should be run. Once you get used to it and in to it, it's nice.