Plus in my deep Penguin days, SuSE was one of my favourite distros, I loved yast based management, and the KDE integration.
it's honestly a crime that they don't get more traction. Tooling they've put out like the Open Build Service (which is distro agnostic), is fantastic. I've been using Tumbleweed on dev machines for a long time, and the fact that they ship fully tested images is imo just a vastly better way to do a rolling release.
When we bring a problem to them, which we pay them for, the turn around time is awful, and about 2/5 cases I end up having to break out the debugging tools and root cause/fix fix it because their support engineers can't be bothered.
Especially their nVidia support. Worse than useless.
I’ve often wondered if the support is better if one is on the “correct”side of the Atlantic.
At a minimum, one would have the benefit of having time zone alignment with Engineering staff.
“We’re waiting for Engineering in Germany to get back to us.” is a common refrain.
SUSE also really like their "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!"-style random subscription audits too.
nVidia is neither Java nor a web server.
* All 3rd party binaries such as fonts, sounds, artwork and branding
* Packages without public available source
* Packages with non-Open Source license
nVidia not being mentioned, means they're not excluded.
nVidia certainly seem to think that their drivers are open source [0]. You'll also note that nVidia seem to think SUSE will provide source for those driver modules, in that announcement.
[0] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-sourc...
Does it matter what country a programming language originates from?
Some examples,
https://www.java.com/en/download/help/error_embargoed.html
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/nuget-org/policies/e...