WARNING! OpenSUSE Removed Deepin for GOOD REASONS

Free Chinese software... covered it in three words peeps...

## Insert security measures here - Deepin codebase, probably. The S in Deepin stands for security lol.

OpenSuse is nice 2 weeks at a time, but they make sudden changes to the desktop. I was trying them about a year ago. Everything was good and then suddenly the update completely dropped the desktop and installed another, poorly configured. Everything broke of course. After that I became skittish about rolling releases. Run them in a virtual machine all you like but don't let them run your desktop. If you must have Suse then pay for enterprise. Expect to reinstall every few months. Expect audio problems other configuration problems and time spent in bash working with rpm databases.

Better late then never?
Well at least the word is out!

rootless linux

too lazy to add security? yep, cheep chinese crap and the less security, the more future attacks available. known chinese quote that they live by: "if you can cheat, CHEAT"!

Deepin is like a lot of things in China, they looks nice on the surface, but when you look deeper you realize it's made of stinky moldy soft Tofu!

I knew it! Deepin is spyware

Everything that is from Chinese origin, the government needs to know and get their hands on it, even being open source I just can't trust it, so does OpenSUSE. So you can't blame it on me...

Idk man, I trust the chinese.

How can you trust something from a country that liberty is forbidden and is a d1ct4t0rship??

even the distro by them are abomination of debian.

Formatting my drive(s) without root level access? NO!
From what I understand between the lines, the OpenSUSE's team have given up on this. They probably don't expect any fix, anytime soon, that's why they made the decision. And nobody can blame them, they did what they should - keeping their distro users secure and informed. And keeping bad code out of the way.

We're all rotten flesh anyway, so...

OBS had same issue with fedora refusing their official package due to using out dated and Fedora rejected UN-patched lib version of back end software... I think the issue here is just as innocent but Deepin runs on a Chinese version of the kernel that has different Root permissions, I think that courses issue for them as thing that work on the kernel they use work but on a western kernel they looked for ways to get it to do the same but it broken SUSE rules. But I wouldn't use it, maybe a western fork of it could be and Idea. I personally never got it to install on more trusted Distro's and why I was surprised the SUSE tried offering it. But that was back when desktop hopping a lot because I settled on learning one and mastering Gnome ins and out to make it work for me.

it's not just Chinesium (although this is pretty egregious), the focus on new features over sound fundamentals and security is distressingly widespread in software, open source and otherwise

trusting Deepin was a fools errand from the jump. people were being naive.

Oh the Made in China™ Desktop Environment is insecure? ... most probably deliberately insecure? Please, tell me more 🙄

Never trust the CCP and they want to control everthing everywhere! OpenSuSe was crazy to use Chinese code. There product was so great when I first discovered them in around 2000, so now that I am retired, I came back to look at them on 10/11 May 2025, to find both Leap and Tumbleweed appear to be crap! Please let me know when (the Date) they have replaced it and with what. I am currently learning Linux Mint with Cinnamon and KDE Plasma instead!

Oh another political decision in linux. Opensource really is dead.

• Federa Silverblue

What we really need is more distros to drop systemd. Linux is turning way too much into a systemd monolith.

Cinnamon is the best. Plasma 6.x is also nice (Baloo is not so resource-greedy there). Gnome is a very stable base for Cosmic and Zorin. Are they not enough? Do we really need a great number of trashy desktops? For example, I look at XFCE in Debian 12 and honestly cannot comprehend why it's impossible to disable the touchpad while typing. In 2025. What a shame. Do we need such a crap? Isn't it better to use good products only?

Every Linux-system is multi-user, like the print-user, network-user...all just users on Linux, software-technically. Those work the same thing as human users, same system for an 'account', privilleges, groups...

What is True and what is your Deprtmnt of deep state Propaganda?

Deepin is from a company under the control of the Chinese government, which is to say, the Chinese Communist Party. It's spyware. I thought everyone knew that.

I don't use Deepin simply because I like KDE better. I don't use OpenSUSE because the people that manage the project are woke.

Any connection between Wuhan lab and Deepin? I mean besides the CCP connection...

OpenSUSE caring for their users? I guess purple hairs do sometimes make good judgement calls. -6,000 social credit score.

Hmm so we in West care if China is spying on us, but not your local government, who, you know can actually f you up... I found out this personally the hard way if say you have the incorrect opinions.

Also, Opensuse is a openly racist organisation so don't really care what they think.

If you're that concerned about your privacy and security, first get rid of your phones.

Not saying I support Chinese spying, but let's remember what's the bigger threat

"Deepin" yeah name checks out, its malware.

Shocker! Who would have thought a Chinese managed DE would have odd authorizations that they shouldn't have?

Speaking as a Mageia packager: my take is that the Deepin developers Do Not Care about security. That is what it sounds like.

Yes, the OpenSuSE packagers should have caught this. On the other hand, at some point you need to trust your fellow packagers.
The upside is that once the OpenSuSE packagers discovered this, they took swift action to remedy this.

The full beard does make you look older. I'm in the same situation, but my look drops by like 10 years just with a clean shave.

Can't update from fedora 40 because of deepin

That's why it's called deepin cos the Chinese are "deep in" the system

in the security field and can say its a moot point and has been for some time. deepin is no more harmful then say running redhat or fedora or ubuntu. its just political...folks scared of the other. folks over there have the exact same convo about fedora and the like.

I don't believe that the developers who managed to create such a nice DE couldn't have possibly made a code without security vulnerabilities.

Thank God I use Red Star ;)

You have a lot of opinions for an end user with no technical knowledge.

Malicious intent should never be your go-to, especially when it is clear you have a bias.

There is a mismatch between the Linux distro Deepin was designed for and the rest of the distros. A fork would be a good idea because Deepin is quite nice.

You can tell a lot about the quality of a channel by the quality, or lack thereof, of its commenters. Switched to Linux is on ignore.

ur mic is a little low

People need to stop using chinese anything. They are a massive security concern in general.

never heard of this deepin whatchamacallit thingamajig...
seemed like a good thing that I didn't....

OpenSUsan is a Forgotten Distro i used to test,i never heard about this Deepin Thing .

Thos china phobia gotta stop

Shame on openSUSE for even offering the Deepin option in the first place since its well known about Deepin’s lax of security.