We performed a comparison between openSUSE Leap and Windows Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Operating Systems (OS) for Business solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I use openSUSE Leap as the base for the Kubernetes cluster we run in-house."
"The most valuable feature by far has been the virtualization capabilities of the operating system."
"The solution is easy for me to use because the backend is derived from FreeBSD and this is something I have been using for over 20 years."
"Stable - it just runs without the necessity to reboot."
"The solution is very stable after it is configured. It is hard to have a panel slow, a problem, misconfiguration, or any kind of loss function."
"openSUSE Leap has helped me with using containers in Podman."
"The solution is easy to use."
"It is stable and scalable."
"The solution is stable."
"I like the views in the user interface."
"The main features that we are using are active directory, domain, and DNS."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the ESRP that is used with the Windows Platform."
"Windows Server can be used for any kind of application. It is an operating system that supports enterprise applications. There is no application that doesn't go with Windows."
"If everything is configured correctly this solution provides high performance. Building a Failover Cluster is comparatively much easier in Windows Server than any of the Linux-based solutions."
"There is room for improvement in the console."
"In the future, the Active Directory could improve."
"I would like openSUSE Leap to have better link integration with Windows."
"Like most Linux-based operating systems, the biggest challenge Leap faces is the GUI."
"The initial system setup or network configuration of the solution is not straightforward and can be improved."
"Somehow the change from OS12.x via 13.x to Leap was a bit bumpy and some old issues seemed to reappear."
"Microsoft needs to expand to integrate the Windows Server with Azure and Linux distribution to provide a simple container environment for running dockerized applications."
"It is not easy to use. It can be more user-friendly to make our routine work a bit easy. It could also be cheaper."
"It would be nice if it was more user-friendly."
"One area that needs improvement is the management console."
"They should release a command-line version of the solution."
"The solution is old so it is not user friendly. I assume that he newer versions would be better than our current one."
"It requires a lot of monthly maintenance in terms of vulnerability management, which is the downside."
"The solution is not easy to use and could be simplified. Additionally, the solution could have better integration."
openSUSE Leap is ranked 12th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 6 reviews while Windows Server is ranked 4th in Operating Systems (OS) for Business with 180 reviews. openSUSE Leap is rated 9.0, while Windows Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of openSUSE Leap writes "Good virtualization capabilities, stable, and cost-effective ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Windows Server writes "Easy to setup, stable and caters to my wide range of use cases but lacks user-friendly interface". openSUSE Leap is most compared with SUSE Linux Enterprise, Ubuntu Linux, Rocky Linux, CentOS and Windows 11, whereas Windows Server is most compared with Ubuntu Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Windows 10, Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris. See our Windows Server vs. openSUSE Leap report.
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