Thank you for your interesting video. The only mistake is that you should generally use "zypper dist-upgrade" (or zypper dup) on tumbleweed (zypper update or up on Leap) because updates in tumbleweed are distributed in snapshots like it's a new major version every time (it significantly improves stability). Just in case you will make another video about openSUSE in the future (:
Yes it's very easy to do, but I recommend reading this article first: dev.to/archerallstars/lets-fine-tune-your-zram-aka-free-ram-in-opensuse-with-zstandard-aka-zstd-4eap I have great performance using zstd compression. Good luck!
Great video, Stephen, thanks! I am just about to install OpenSuse for the first time, after experiencing a disaster with Manjaro on my new MSI laptop. I have Manjaro running quite nicely on an old laptop, but on this new one, it keeps crashing and driving me crazy. Your demonstration with zapper just convinced me that OpenSuse is the right choice for me now. I just liked the video and subscribed to your channel.
Thank you once again Stephen. I followed your adventures with Arch, Fedora WS and Silverblue, but now I have Tumbleweed Gnome. In terminal goes to openSUSE Tumbleweed terminal login, but it does not respond. I have to hard boot. How do I troubleshoot? Thank you.
Love your videos! Tumbleweed seems like a great distro, I should definitely try it. At the moment I use EndeavourOS and i'm having some framerate issues with KDE Plasma and Nvidia drivers, maybe openSUSE will be any different about that
Great video Stephen. I have a question. Would it be better to use zram instead of swap? It's it possible on a laptop to have both zram and zwap with the latter not managed by fstab and only used for suspend/hibernate? Well, that's two questions :)
Yes you can! In fact last I checked, zram had higher priority automatically and the kernel wouldn't touch the swap partition unless it ran out of space. :) So perfect for say laptops where you want suspend to disk.
I had try install opensuse but why everytime i choose install from menu boot , my open suse just stuck on loading black screen with text, LOADING BASIC DRIVERS on the center
i don't understand why openSUSE is so unpopular, It has bee my main system for over 10 years, I was related to IT services and stuff and never had mayor issues, nowadays I'm just a common user and my daily tasks are completely covered with openSUSE. The only con i found with openSUSE is that overall it is a heavy OS, but it is 1000% worth it. Cheers!
Very weird indeed! And what's funny is you can even have a pretty light system as well if you spend a little extra time installing and choose your initial patterns and packages judiciously... Thanks for sharing!
Not big name. Have nothing really special. And really not very easy to use for someone from Windows. I prefer Suse over Fedora. But someone from USA might not find any point in Suse. We that live in EU with plenty of download mirrors etc? I mean I rather see OpenSuse in schools etc then Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch. Debian/Mint or OpenSuse should become the replacement of Windows. I had loved to see adaptation and investment put into OpenSuse to secure a open free OS. Trying to keep the OS as light and flexible without any crap in it like ads or anything. But it is going to be hard to make sure that governments or whatever do not just ruin it by adding Windows like crap to it. Keeping it light and only to benefit the computer and user is crucial. What Windows is not doing now. Windows 7 still being the last true OS that did not * with you without a good reason. Like bad drivers or whatever.
I use OpenSuse Leap, btw. But I can see a few more disadvantages - I guess it does not really matter that much if you use Ubuntu LTS, Debian or Leap on a server, - btrfs brings some complexity - zypper on btrfs is likely the slowest package manager I ever used and it makes distro feel slow (compare to pacman on manjaro: package is downloaded from best benchmarked mirror vs official repo; packages are compressed by zstandard which is designed for very fast decompression and compression ratio is good vs xz(lzma2) which has great compression ratio and but much slower decompression; on top of that it creates btrfs snapshot even if the package is not important - for some low power home servers or old laptops, it's quite significant) - it's not a cool or new distro or interesting in any way and it's not build for tinkering or customization - so there's not a lot of youtube content about it (the same applies to Debian and Ubuntu LTS - youtube content is biased towards arch) - compared to Ubuntu community is much smaller and all guidelines and articles basically assume that you use Ubuntu (askubuntu page on stackexchange has mostly distro unspecific questions) - confusing distro selection and uncertain future of what will follow after Leap 15 as some re-purposing is likely on the way (what exactly is a difference between Leap and MicroOS Leap if second one offers KDE anyways?) My way towards Leap was that I wanted distribution with useable KDE (having very bad experience with Fedora KDE spin and kUbuntu some time ago) and I ended trying OpenMandriva, Manjaro and OpenSuse. OpenMandriva has a small community and lacked some packages. Manjaro is fine, except rolling distro is not always suitable option and it make break if it's not updated often. But Manjaro is more beginer friendly (vbox additions, codecs out of the box) and first impression is better. In long term, it's vice versa.
On hardware snapper + btrfs is hanging my system terribly locking up my system. The performance issues are especially bad after upgrading and restarting with 12th gen intel and DDR5 ram w/ the latest TW release.
@@stephenstechtalks5377 thank you so much for your great videos that always help me learn more about Linux. Even though I have been using it since the mandrake days and compiling 3dfx drivers, I am always learning. This tumbleweed issue seems to be married to plasma as my system doesn't seem to lockup when I am using GNOME. I ran a zypper dup and upgraded (so far so good), BUT for a rolling release OpenSUSE doesn't like to be restarted often, which can be a daily thing. There are some gremlins in the intel thread manager still that need to be worked out with the latest kernels. Maybe I need to try another distro that co-operates better for a direct hardware install. ArcoLinux on my laptop that is 5 years old feels feels better optimized compared to my new desktop on TW!
@@stephenstechtalks5377 after watching your other videos, the opensuse defaults aren't anywhere near optimized for SSD storage. Neither compression or noatime are anywhere to be found. Perhaps this was part of my bottleneck. I have updated my fstab accordingly and appied it to all btrfs volumes including swap. Running a mount command after reboot now looks much better rw,noatime,compress=zstd:1,ssd,space_cache=v2
Hello! This Distro is great I have to admit, but actually have a problem while I try to install Nvidia drivers, I followed step by step the instructions to install this one, even I tried it two times, I reinstalled the OS but I havent success, I think that the steps or instructions to do this are out to date, because the tutorial was uploaded 6 months ago, and today obiously, kernel has been changed o modified, and the command lines need to be updated, well but I hope this problem has a solution soon..
Can you help me 🙏 warning: %triggerin(nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default-470.161.03_k6.1.10_1-59.6.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 (opensuse tumbleweed) 🙏🙏🙏
This common issue with nvidia graphics on Linux is why I moved to AMD. :) Really difficult to troubleshoot over the internet. Good thing you are running TW, so my recommendation would be to boot from a previous, hopefully working, snapshot and avoid updating until the nvidia graphics driver catches up to the latest kernel. Good luck to you!
Selecting patterns on install without looking whats in them. They should have the details pane open by default. Snapper is indeed a fantastic tool. Other distros which ship with BTRFS as the default should include it.
Thanks. I use LEAP not Tumbleweed, but snapper works just as great. I have had to use it once 'in anger' in about 5 years, when I carelessly stopped things. Could you consider publishing an article on UEFI booting of external Linux USB disc leaving Windows intact? Thanks for this video on Tumbleweed.
I switched from Arch to Opensuse a year ago and have no regrets. Never had any issue running the latest and greatest.
Thanks for sharing, and to a great extent I feel the same. :)
Thank you for your interesting video. The only mistake is that you should generally use "zypper dist-upgrade" (or zypper dup) on tumbleweed (zypper update or up on Leap) because updates in tumbleweed are distributed in snapshots like it's a new major version every time (it significantly improves stability). Just in case you will make another video about openSUSE in the future (:
Thanks for the feedback!
Thank you. Been scratching my head. Seriously, you're the only one that has been helpful.
Glad I could help!
Thank you so much for your in detailed tutorial. Switched to OpenSuse Tumbleweed from Manjaro and have no regrets.
Great to hear!
@@stephenstechtalks5377 ... Do I need to edit the fstab and install zRam in OpenSuse Tumbleweed?
Yes it's very easy to do, but I recommend reading this article first:
dev.to/archerallstars/lets-fine-tune-your-zram-aka-free-ram-in-opensuse-with-zstandard-aka-zstd-4eap
I have great performance using zstd compression. Good luck!
This is one gem of a video and the distro too btw!
It's a great rolling distro, thanks for watching! :)
Great job!!! I really enjoyed your distro review. I appreciate the detail and getting into the terminal. keep em coming!!!
Thanks, glad you liked it!
Great video, Stephen, thanks! I am just about to install OpenSuse for the first time, after experiencing a disaster with Manjaro on my new MSI laptop. I have Manjaro running quite nicely on an old laptop, but on this new one, it keeps crashing and driving me crazy. Your demonstration with zapper just convinced me that OpenSuse is the right choice for me now. I just liked the video and subscribed to your channel.
Awesome choice of a distro, thanks for sharing!
@@stephenstechtalks5377 I now see that I invented a new word, zapper, which of course meant snapper, but with a touch of zypper ;-)
Makes sense! :)
Greeting Stephen,
another great video. Keep up the good work 👍
( I really like the terminal and system functionality explanation on your channel )
Thanks for the feedback, will do! :)
I love opensuse ❤️
I do too! I always felt they went the extra mile with QA, and their Snapper tool is amazing... :)
Thank you once again Stephen. I followed your adventures with Arch, Fedora WS and Silverblue, but now I have Tumbleweed Gnome.
In terminal goes to openSUSE Tumbleweed terminal login, but it does not respond. I have to hard boot. How do I troubleshoot? Thank you.
Nice work dude.
Glad you liked it!
Love your videos! Tumbleweed seems like a great distro, I should definitely try it. At the moment I use EndeavourOS and i'm having some framerate issues with KDE Plasma and Nvidia drivers, maybe openSUSE will be any different about that
Glad you like them! Yes, Tumbleweed is a fine rolling distro with extensive hardware support and good docs. :)
Great video Stephen. I have a question. Would it be better to use zram instead of swap? It's it possible on a laptop to have both zram and zwap with the latter not managed by fstab and only used for suspend/hibernate? Well, that's two questions :)
Yes you can! In fact last I checked, zram had higher priority automatically and the kernel wouldn't touch the swap partition unless it ran out of space. :) So perfect for say laptops where you want suspend to disk.
Great content! Once again......
Glad you liked it!
loving your videos stephen thanks again
Glad you like them! Still learning a lot on how to make them... ;)
Thank you! It was really interesting! What is your preffered distro and DE?
Thanks! Currently, I'm mostly with Arch and Cinnamon but looking to expand my horizons to lighter window managers, hopefully soon. :)
I had try install opensuse but why everytime i choose install from menu boot , my open suse just stuck on loading black screen with text, LOADING BASIC DRIVERS on the center
Sounds like a hardware compatibility issue to me. Impossible to remotely diagnose...
Have you reported this to the developers?
i don't understand why openSUSE is so unpopular, It has bee my main system for over 10 years, I was related to IT services and stuff and never had mayor issues, nowadays I'm just a common user and my daily tasks are completely covered with openSUSE. The only con i found with openSUSE is that overall it is a heavy OS, but it is 1000% worth it. Cheers!
Very weird indeed! And what's funny is you can even have a pretty light system as well if you spend a little extra time installing and choose your initial patterns and packages judiciously... Thanks for sharing!
Not big name. Have nothing really special. And really not very easy to use for someone from Windows. I prefer Suse over Fedora. But someone from USA might not find any point in Suse. We that live in EU with plenty of download mirrors etc? I mean I rather see OpenSuse in schools etc then Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch.
Debian/Mint or OpenSuse should become the replacement of Windows. I had loved to see adaptation and investment put into OpenSuse to secure a open free OS. Trying to keep the OS as light and flexible without any crap in it like ads or anything. But it is going to be hard to make sure that governments or whatever do not just ruin it by adding Windows like crap to it. Keeping it light and only to benefit the computer and user is crucial. What Windows is not doing now. Windows 7 still being the last true OS that did not * with you without a good reason. Like bad drivers or whatever.
I use OpenSuse Leap, btw. But I can see a few more disadvantages
- I guess it does not really matter that much if you use Ubuntu LTS, Debian or Leap on a server,
- btrfs brings some complexity
- zypper on btrfs is likely the slowest package manager I ever used and it makes distro feel slow (compare to pacman on manjaro: package is downloaded from best benchmarked mirror vs official repo; packages are compressed by zstandard which is designed for very fast decompression and compression ratio is good vs xz(lzma2) which has great compression ratio and but much slower decompression; on top of that it creates btrfs snapshot even if the package is not important - for some low power home servers or old laptops, it's quite significant)
- it's not a cool or new distro or interesting in any way and it's not build for tinkering or customization - so there's not a lot of youtube content about it (the same applies to Debian and Ubuntu LTS - youtube content is biased towards arch)
- compared to Ubuntu community is much smaller and all guidelines and articles basically assume that you use Ubuntu (askubuntu page on stackexchange has mostly distro unspecific questions)
- confusing distro selection and uncertain future of what will follow after Leap 15 as some re-purposing is likely on the way (what exactly is a difference between Leap and MicroOS Leap if second one offers KDE anyways?)
My way towards Leap was that I wanted distribution with useable KDE (having very bad experience with Fedora KDE spin and kUbuntu some time ago) and I ended trying OpenMandriva, Manjaro and OpenSuse. OpenMandriva has a small community and lacked some packages. Manjaro is fine, except rolling distro is not always suitable option and it make break if it's not updated often. But Manjaro is more beginer friendly (vbox additions, codecs out of the box) and first impression is better. In long term, it's vice versa.
On hardware snapper + btrfs is hanging my system terribly locking up my system. The performance issues are especially bad after upgrading and restarting with 12th gen intel and DDR5 ram w/ the latest TW release.
Seems like a kernel issue? Thanks for sharing!
@@stephenstechtalks5377 thank you so much for your great videos that always help me learn more about Linux. Even though I have been using it since the mandrake days and compiling 3dfx drivers, I am always learning. This tumbleweed issue seems to be married to plasma as my system doesn't seem to lockup when I am using GNOME. I ran a zypper dup and upgraded (so far so good), BUT for a rolling release OpenSUSE doesn't like to be restarted often, which can be a daily thing. There are some gremlins in the intel thread manager still that need to be worked out with the latest kernels. Maybe I need to try another distro that co-operates better for a direct hardware install. ArcoLinux on my laptop that is 5 years old feels feels better optimized compared to my new desktop on TW!
@@crazyczech3620 Awesome! :)
@@stephenstechtalks5377 after watching your other videos, the opensuse defaults aren't anywhere near optimized for SSD storage. Neither compression or noatime are anywhere to be found. Perhaps this was part of my bottleneck. I have updated my fstab accordingly and appied it to all btrfs volumes including swap. Running a mount command after reboot now looks much better rw,noatime,compress=zstd:1,ssd,space_cache=v2
Noticed a similar issue on Fedora, fortunately an easy fix…
Hello! This Distro is great I have to admit, but actually have a problem while I try to install Nvidia drivers, I followed step by step the instructions to install this one, even I tried it two times, I reinstalled the OS but I havent success, I think that the steps or instructions to do this are out to date, because the tutorial was uploaded 6 months ago, and today obiously, kernel has been changed o modified, and the command lines need to be updated, well but I hope this problem has a solution soon..
Thanks for sharing! If I need to run Nvidia boxes with Linux, I usually go for Fedora or even PopOS - they usually work out of the box...
Can you help me 🙏 warning: %triggerin(nvidia-gfxG05-kmp-default-470.161.03_k6.1.10_1-59.6.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 (opensuse tumbleweed) 🙏🙏🙏
This common issue with nvidia graphics on Linux is why I moved to AMD. :)
Really difficult to troubleshoot over the internet. Good thing you are running TW, so my recommendation would be to boot from a previous, hopefully working, snapshot and avoid updating until the nvidia graphics driver catches up to the latest kernel. Good luck to you!
@@stephenstechtalks5377 Fixed the latest nvidia graphics update, thanks for the advice... openSuse tumbleweed rocks 🙏🏼🤘
Awesome!
Excelent!!!
Thanks! :)
Selecting patterns on install without looking whats in them. They should have the details pane open by default.
Snapper is indeed a fantastic tool. Other distros which ship with BTRFS as the default should include it.
Ah yes, the relentless pursuit of finding a good balance between video length and being thorough. Agreed, and thanks for watching!
Very nice tks. 😊
Sure thing! 👍🏻
It has such a large driver database, takes 12 minutes to install, and yet still can't find my printer during or after install. C'mon Suse!
IKR?! Thanks for watching! :)
Hahahaha, that's how you know it's German. Over-engineered but fails the little stuff
Have you reported this to the developers of OpenSUSE or CUPS?
Thanks. I use LEAP not Tumbleweed, but snapper works just as great. I have had to use it once 'in anger' in about 5 years, when I carelessly stopped things. Could you consider publishing an article on UEFI booting of external Linux USB disc leaving Windows intact? Thanks for this video on Tumbleweed.
You never know when you need it until you need it! :) Thanks for watching and the suggestion!