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."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."
"I use openSUSE Leap as the base for the Kubernetes cluster we run in-house."
"openSUSE Leap has helped me with using containers in Podman."
"The most valuable feature by far has been the virtualization capabilities of the operating system."
"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."
"This is a stable product."
"The solution is stable."
"It's user-friendly."
"It is pretty simple and flexible. It works with all kinds of software. That's why we are using it. We avoid using Linux and other platforms."
"I like that it's simple and the users are happy."
"Setting up Windows Server is pretty straightforward. It takes anywhere from a few hours to a day. One person can do it if it's not a complex environment."
"The product is easy to use and adapt. It is known for GUI."
"The product integrates well with Sophos."
"The initial system setup or network configuration of the solution is not straightforward and can be improved."
"There is room for improvement in the console."
"Like most Linux-based operating systems, the biggest challenge Leap faces is the GUI."
"Somehow the change from OS12.x via 13.x to Leap was a bit bumpy and some old issues seemed to reappear."
"I would like openSUSE Leap to have better link integration with Windows."
"In the future, the Active Directory could improve."
"I would like to see better integration with other solutions."
"The licensing for the solution is expensive."
"There is room for improvement in terms of pricing."
"Windows Server could improve its integration with cloud and hybrid environments to better adapt to modern computing needs."
"Windows should add some more compatibility tools to Windows Server."
"It could be more stable. Windows has certain problems that Unix platforms don't have. It requires more administrative effort as compared to Unix. I don't know why Microsoft has not changed that. It generates a lot of trash data, so slowly and steadily, you find more and more space being utilized. There is some kind of administrative load, which doesn't happen with Unix."
"The stability could be improved."
"Windows Server could improve by having a faster browser, IE is too slow. There are better alternatives, such as Chrome."
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 Fedora Linux, 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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