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[โ€“] turdas@suppo.fi 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Wow, never heard of them.

SUSE is the leading independent Enterprise Open Source company, founded in 1992. Pioneer in software-defined infrastructure and beyond. More than 90% of SAP HANA deployments and more than two-thirds of the Fortune Global 100 companies worldwide trust SUSE.

https://www.nordicmind.com/suse/

Never seen it used nor mentioned anywhere. Maybe they don't have a user interface and are just used on servers or infrastructure (whatever "software-defined infrastructure" means)? That would explain why governments still use Microsoft (and increasingly fruits).

[โ€“] klangcola@reddthat.com 22 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

SuSE is one of the two major enterprise Linux distributions, with RedHat being the other. I would assume servers make up the bulk of their business, but they provide desktops too.

RedHat is probably better known to most end-users, due to their Fedora community distribution, and their heavy involvement in Gnome.

SuSE's community distribution is openSUSE
EDIT: Fittingly, the very top of their website says "Make your old Windows 10 PC fast and secure again!" and links to https://endof10.org/

[โ€“] turdas@suppo.fi 2 points 12 hours ago

Maybe you've heard of Novell, the American company that bought SUSE in the early 2000s and then eventually sold it off. They were kind of big in the 2000s.

After many more mergers and acquisitions SUSE is (for now) back under European ownership.

[โ€“] Tundra@sh.itjust.works 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Its also a linux OS for business, theres an open variant for home pc use aswell: https://www.opensuse.org/

[โ€“] cRazi_man@europe.pub 5 points 19 hours ago

Tumbleweed was such a great choice for me when getting started with Linux. The enterprise support has benefits, I found specific rpm packages for problems I was having with a printer and a remote desktop client. And Yast is great to have for a Linux noob.

[โ€“] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 15 hours ago

Mostly they use it due to vendor lock-in tbh

Microsoft and Apple both use a sly tactic of offering the OS for cheap, and some products for cheap, but with the express intention that everything is so interlinking you can't replace just one thing, you have to replace it all.

Which is too much time and effort for most governments

[โ€“] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 15 hours ago

You would have heard of them a lot if you were a computer nerd. You must just be one of the common folk.