{"id":184919,"date":"2025-08-24T22:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/?p=184919"},"modified":"2025-08-24T22:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T22:23:12","slug":"opensuse-launches-revamped-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/opensuse-launches-revamped-website\/","title":{"rendered":"openSUSE Launches Revamped Website"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

openSUSE has quietly rolled out a major refresh to its website\u2014well, to the home page, to be more exact (I\u2019ll get into that in a moment). If you\u2019re curious, head over to opensuse.org<\/a> and see it for yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right away, the color scheme stands out, and honestly, that pale green works really well. The whole look feels cleaner and more modern, definitely closer to today\u2019s design standards. I also really like the main navigation. It\u2019s simple and easy to follow\u2014just News, Desktop OS, and Server OS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, that\u2019s about where the good things with this redesign stops. Let me explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Above the fold (the part of a webpage that\u2019s visible to a user without having to scroll down), which is considered the most valuable area of any webpage, we\u2019ve got the slogan \u201cEmbrace the chameleon<\/em>.\u201d Sure, for those of us already in the loop, this might sound fun. But for someone like John, who\u2019s brand new to Linux, this means\u2026 well, nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In my opinion, it would be far clearer to take the Linux Mint approach<\/a> with something simple like \u201cWhat is Linux Mint?<\/em>\u201d\u2014or in this case, \u201cWhat is openSUSE?<\/em>\u201d Nothing more, nothing less. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next big oversight, at least in my view, has to do with the distro\u2019s flagship offerings. Think about it: for years now, Tumbleweed and Leap have been the core of what makes openSUSE\u2026 well, openSUSE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet instead of being front and center, they\u2019re tucked away further down the page, below a block of six cards and a breakdown of installer options, under a section labeled \u201cMost popular flavors<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"The<\/a>
The new openSUSE website.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Honestly, what\u2019s going on here? After the word \u201copenSUSE,\u201d the two others that matter most are Tumbleweed and Leap. So why are they treated like secondary details? That just doesn\u2019t make sense. Not to mention, Aeon (an immutable still-in-development distro) also shows up in the “Specialized flavors<\/em>” list, though I\u2019m not even sure it\u2019s still actually part of the openSUSE project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And now, back to where I started. The openSUSE website redesign really only applies to the home page. Once you click away from it, everything looks the same as before. The problem is that this lack of consistency feels confusing\u2014almost like the site is just a bunch of separate pieces loosely stitched together, with no real connection between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s hard to understand why a project with openSUSE\u2019s reputation would roll out a redesign for just one page, leaving the rest untouched. If this were the site of some smaller distro run by a single passionate developer, it would make sense. But we\u2019re talking about openSUSE here. And when expectations are set that high, people naturally expect the presentation to live up to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that in mind, there\u2019s really no need to dive into why the redesigned site prominently features the old “Ahoy, this is openSUSE<\/em>” welcome greeter\u2014especially since the distro just announced a newer<\/a>, more modern replacement a few days ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In conclusion, giving the openSUSE website a fresh look is definitely a step in the right direction. Other popular names like Linux Mint, Fedora, and Manjaro have already modernized their online presence in the past couple of years, so it makes sense for openSUSE to follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That said, the current redesign still leaves plenty of room for improvement if the goal is to have a website that reflects the quality of the distribution itself, which, without any doubt<\/em>, is one of the best in the entire Linux ecosystem. Hopefully, with time, these rough edges will get smoothed out and the site will truly live up to what openSUSE represents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The new openSUSE website is live, yet the redesign leaves much to be desired, with noticeable gaps and improvements still needed across the board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-184919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-os","category-news","tag-opensuse"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184994,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184919\/revisions\/184994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxiac.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}