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At the company I work at currently, we're in the process of replacing all Linux-based machines with OpenSUSE... not for any technical merit or reason that I've heard other than, "we should all use the same thing for everything".

So another 20k+ SUSE installations coming from that alone this year.

Market share by mandate; some sales guy at SUSE probably got a big bonus.

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For 20k+ users they probably give you more insider info. Did you ask if SLE and Leap are going to continue to be made? Or did you go directly for ALP or MicroOS?

I haven't been privy to those kinds of conversations. Mostly we are replacing Ubuntu LTS and older CentOS with OpenSUSE Leap for servers. Some developers are deploying Tumbleweed as a rolling release.

I'm trying to give it chance, change being hard and all.

The other comments here from long time users are giving me some hope that we may find tangible benefits, especially w.r.t btrfs and snapshots.

What are you replacing?

FWIW IMNHO "use the same thing for everything" is a technical reason ...

Nothing like logging in to a server running some old legacy app and realizing it's running some bespoke version of ancient Oracle Linux (or Gentoo or whatever you happen to be unfamiliar with, but some previous hire thought was the bomb) - and try to untangle what issues stem from the distro, and which belong to the application...

While true, I suppose conformity as a justification could apply to any distro choice. It doesn't justify OpenSUSE specifically in itself.

See a cousin comment from me with a bit more detail... I've probably already said too much.

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