openSuSe is another Linux distribution worth looking at. It’s listed as the second Major Distribution at Distro Watch so it must be raising more eyebrows than you think. With an easy to use installation that requires little to no previous experience and a better visually appealing boot loading screen by defaut, OpenSuSe is something you should try out. I currently use it on my laptop to do some OpenGL programming, and to be honest, it’s great.

openSuSe at a glance

openSuSe at a light glance seems more driven towards eye candy with the more visually appealing boot loader, login screen, start menu, and ease of adding visual effects. It also has excellent management tool that lets you install software from large repositories, in other words; no need to hunt software down. You can also use YaST Control Center which lets you control Hardware, Network Devices, Network Services, Security, User, and as well control more type of options.
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