This new desktop incarnation of OpenSUSE Linux successfully installed on a Core 2 Duo Dell box of about 10 years' age. I'm finding various oddball items of behavior but it's generally solid.
This load is my first experience with the Brave web browser, which defaults to several good security practices such as searching for HTTPS connections wherever possible. It's a rewrite of Chrome minus several... questionable practices. My only trouble with it would be the practice of closing the bookmark menu any time a change is made, requiring the user to re-enter the menu, unlike Firefox which doesn't close the menu after creation of folders, for instance.
When connecting a camera (Android in this case), I've been seeing intermittent connections for both charging and transferring pictures. And when pics successfully transfer, it's possible only by "manually" right-clicking on the file and doing a move to a home directory. Within the graphics program, the move or copy always fails, so I don't open it until after the move or copy is done.
In YAST (yet another setup tool), the Software Update app has no obvious refresh control, but several hidden in the dropdown menus which usually work. A equivalent tray symbol, a circle with an "UP" arrow in it - with a blue dot indicator - has proven stable so far, though, for noting when the system detects an update ready for installation.
I haven't been able to configure the wireless NIC yet, although the system did detect nearby networks with no problem (this issue could just be me).
I did like the Security & Hardening Center app, though, which is extensive and uncomplicated. Overall this version of OpenSUSE would not be a system for a newbie but is stable (no crashes so far after about 3 weeks of testing) and with further debugging looks to be an interesting contender in the desktop Linux race.
