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 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 most valuable feature by far has been the virtualization capabilities of the operating system."
"I use openSUSE Leap as the base for the Kubernetes cluster we run in-house."
"Stable - it just runs without the necessity to reboot."
"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."
"Windows Server is very useful and easy to install."
"The solution is scalable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is Hyper-V Live Migration for Critical applications."
"The product is reliable. It is powerful and we can make a lot of tools to work with it."
"The initial setup is very simple."
"Windows engineers are more affordable than Linux or Unix engineers, so that's another advantage. So, the management costs are much lower for the Windows Server."
"I have found Active Directory a valuable feature. When comparing Windows Server and VMware, I prefer the Windows environment because it is very easy to use."
"The GUI is familiar. Anyone who doesn't know how to use a file server can be taught to use the product in a few minutes."
"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."
"Somehow the change from OS12.x via 13.x to Leap was a bit bumpy and some old issues seemed to reappear."
"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."
"Windows should add some more compatibility tools to Windows Server."
"The solution could be more secure."
"The security could be improved."
"Windows Server needs to improve stability and pricing."
"It requires a lot of monthly maintenance in terms of vulnerability management, which is the downside."
"Windows Server needs to introduce more dashboards."
"With Microsoft, there are always bugs, and the stability could be improved."
"The compatibility and the ease of use are areas that I would like to see improved."
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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