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I'd say zypper is the biggest difference. BTW for package management only there's also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Rosetta
this table is awesome. Thanks
Arch Wiki is just brilliant, even when using different distributions.
https://software.opensuse.org/packages for searching packages that aren't in your activated repos, and steps to activate the one that contains them.
Thanks, I had a look and I wanted to ask even though it is kinda obvious but I want to confirm about the "community packages". Who is building them? The word community implies that it may be a community behind them but the naming system suggests that they are personal repos (and most probably not checked). What is the case?
They're repos maintained by a single person, and official documentation tells you to avoid them, cause their purpose is to be a place where maintainers can break unimportant stuff.
If something is only available through community repos, the official way forward would be to submit a bug report to OpenSUSE, asking to include the package in the official repo, or to contact the maintainer and ask them to do it.
I'd keep use of community repos to a minimum and prefer first flatpak, then the experimental repo over them. No one but the maintainer themselves checks or tests the community repos for stability and compatibility.
But I've activated one community repo for a package that wasn't available anywhere else (sane-airscan).
I see. Yes, it is as I had suspected and yes, as there is not any guarantee that the package is legit unless you know the maintainer, then I also think it is better to avoid. Thanks for explaining
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